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Old Aug 9, 2011 | 08:46 PM
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changing mph to km

I'm going to Canada for 3 months for work and was wondering if there was anyway to change the mph to km... I know the car (for the US) is built only in mph (on the odometer w/ the stick) but is there anyway to change the digital one?

(when you scroll through the menu.. you can find the mpg, miles, etc... is there anyway to see km instead of mph)?

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Old Aug 9, 2011 | 09:11 PM
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yeah scroll to the right until you get to the settings. One of the options should be "instrument cluster" and in there you can select KMH
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Old Aug 9, 2011 | 09:25 PM
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On my Canadian car, I can program the instrument cluster to display mph, which is useful for trips to the U.S. So, I assume you can also view kmh on your US car model.

To view kmh, select Settings /Instr. Cluster/ press OK/ and then choose kmh. Your main speedometer will still be mph, but you you will see a separate display on the instrument cluster indicating kmh.
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Old Aug 9, 2011 | 11:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Rapsteady1
I'm going to Canada for 3 months for work and was wondering if there was anyway to change the mph to km... I know the car (for the US) is built only in mph (on the odometer w/ the stick) but is there anyway to change the digital one?

(when you scroll through the menu.. you can find the mpg, miles, etc... is there anyway to see km instead of mph)?

thanks
I think this will be of interest to you: on your instrument cluster, you can toggle where it shows weather (in deg. F) by default to speed (in kmph). Surprisingly, I haven't found a way to change the weather to deg. C, or the kmph to mph.
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Old Aug 19, 2011 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by earlybird
On my Canadian car, I can program the instrument cluster to display mph, which is useful for trips to the U.S. So, I assume you can also view kmh on your US car model.

To view kmh, select Settings /Instr. Cluster/ press OK/ and then choose kmh. Your main speedometer will still be mph, but you you will see a separate display on the instrument cluster indicating kmh.
Appreciate the help.. However, I still don't know how many km/h I am going... I did what you said, and everything changed to km/h, but the main important thing I wanted to change was this:



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Old Aug 19, 2011 | 11:22 PM
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No way to change that yourself - all you can do is switch the temperature to kph.
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are you talking about the MPH around the whole circle, or the read out "30 MPH"

you can change the center "30 MPH" to KPH...or you can have the KPH show up where the outside temperature is displayed
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Old Aug 21, 2011 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by joshg1001
are you talking about the MPH around the whole circle, or the read out "30 MPH"

you can change the center "30 MPH" to KPH...or you can have the KPH show up where the outside temperature is displayed
I am referring to where it reads "30 MPH"...

How can you change that to KPH?
I'm also quite interested in how you can change the the temp to the KPH.

Thanks again guys, appreciate the help.
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