Ahead of the game - Laziness wins

[pergau]

When I got the FTO about a year and a half ago it had the original (Jap) speedo and I have been threatening to change it to Miles since then.

Now a combination of laziness and lethargy has finally paid off! My car is fully compliant for the new speed regulations.

Of course I still have to de-restrict it ...

What are other owners going to do re the the changeover?

[steelroe]

All of my previous cars were Jap imports and I always worked with km/h
Most of the aftermarket speed dials will have both miles and KM on them so shouldn't be a problem.

Will cars being made for the european market eventually have their speedos with KM/h on the larger outer ring of the speedo.

[keville]

Hey Guys,

Yea from 01-01-05 nearly all new cars will have km/h as the main reading. the government cant force companies to have these dials because of some EU directive...........

Keville

[steelroe]

Just noticed tonight that the KM/h on my wifes honda is virtually impossible to read in the dark. And before some smart ass says turn the light's on they already were

[pergau]

I agree with you Steelroe, I have to find a set for my mothers Fiesta for the same reason.

[adrian]

My S2000 has a lovely feature. A little button on the dash changes everything to km. Speedo, total miles, trip milage etc.

http://auto.consumerguide.com/auto/used ... 2081990004

[kevinod]

My S2000 has a lovely feature. A little button on the dash changes everything to km. Speedo, total miles, trip milage etc.

http://auto.consumerguide.com/auto/used ... 2081990004

Heh, how does it differentiate between Km and miles? Could you like, accidentally hit the button and all of a sudden be doing a lot more km than you thought you were?

[adrian]

It changes to say KMPH/MPH. Know what you mean though!

[CJ]

We're officially using KPH, big deal! (how much taxpayers money was wasted on that marketing campaign I wonder?)

On that front, have many of you changed your dials over the years to read in MPH? I have and I'm considering changing back (i.e. new aftermarket kit that is). Anyone else in the same situation? KMC are out of business which means that Funky have very little choice in terms of colours at the moment, I emailed Chris a mail to see if they've any plans, see below:

>dial kits for the FTO, any plans to improve the range?

Yes! New designs coming soon.

>Secondly, do the kits
>include KPH dials?

Not sure yet... they may do....

ETA is about 2 months for new designs.

Cheers
Chris

CJ

[kevinod]

We're officially using KPH, big deal! (how much taxpayers money was wasted on that marketing campaign I wonder?)

On that front, have many of you changed your dials over the years to read in MPH? I have and I'm considering changing back (i.e. new aftermarket kit that is). Anyone else in the same situation? KMC are out of business which means that Funky have very little choice in terms of colours at the moment, I emailed Chris a mail to see if they've any plans, see below:

>dial kits for the FTO, any plans to improve the range?

Yes! New designs coming soon.

>Secondly, do the kits
>include KPH dials?

Not sure yet... they may do....

ETA is about 2 months for new designs.

Cheers
Chris

CJ

Changing was something I had in mind alright, liked my white dials in the Xsara, but never got around to it.

I'm thinking, since they had km/h in Japan, surely there's a jap company that's done white dials for the FTO? I haven't done much looking yet but I'd be surprised if there isn't someone over there doing them.

Kev.

[Myfeckin FTO]

We're officially using KPH, big deal! (how much taxpayers money was wasted on that marketing campaign I wonder?)

On that front, have many of you changed your dials over the years to read in MPH? I have and I'm considering changing back (i.e. new aftermarket kit that is). Anyone else in the same situation? KMC are out of business which means that Funky have very little choice in terms of colours at the moment, I emailed Chris a mail to see if they've any plans, see below:

CJ

I have the Funky Product stainless steel dials in MPH - but I didn't get round to doing the conversion/delimiting so its still calibrated for KPH.
I don't think they are still selling these either so I may not be able to change for a KPH dial only.

BTW - The steel dials are a b!tch to fit - very little movement at all in them so you risk breaking the needles on the dials.

[soc]

We're officially using KPH, big deal! (how much taxpayers money was wasted on that marketing campaign I wonder?)

too much I'd say!

On that front, have many of you changed your dials over the years to read in MPH? I have and I'm considering changing back (i.e. new aftermarket kit that is).
CJ

I wonder if I can get set of dials for the golf - with the small print for the kmph on my dials and damn zero tolerance from the garda I'd be genuinely afraid of straying over by a couple of kms and getting done!


Btw, anyone else think it's completely crazy that 40mph areas are gone to 60kmh??? That's 37.5mph - so in stillorgan, on a pretty wide dual carriage-way you have to do 37.5mph.... any english who come over here must think we're idiots!!!

[pergau]

I agree, the only thing to do is Lobby your local councillors to have the limit on the road changed to 80Kmph.

[Dave]

that's not the worst, the N7 has now been reduced to 60km was 60mph and then 50mph but they've just reduced the whole lot and the dual carriage way between Naas and Newbridge has just been reduced from 60mph to 80km, how do they justify these changes?

[Myfeckin FTO]

that's not the worst, the N7 has now been reduced to 60km was 60mph and then 50mph but they've just reduced the whole lot and the dual carriage way between Naas and Newbridge has just been reduced from 60mph to 80km, how do they justify these changes?

The MPH speed limits were already a joke - this could put you in the sh1te for doing 65MPH (104KPH) on a 60KPH limited duel carriageway. Road safety gone mad.

[soc]

that's not the worst, the N7 has now been reduced to 60km was 60mph and then 50mph but they've just reduced the whole lot and the dual carriage way between Naas and Newbridge has just been reduced from 60mph to 80km, how do they justify these changes?

I'm in for a pretty long drive this evning so - gotta head out the N7 to Enfield..... aaaggghhhh

[Dave]

yeah it's madness, basically from Rathcoole to Naas is 37Mph!! and here was me thinking that a national road was 60mph!!

[soc]

yeah it's madness, basically from Rathcoole to Naas is 37Mph!! and here was me thinking that a national road was 60mph!!

[shane puts on political hat]
maybe it's time people did something about this - if enough people could come together - get a petition, maybe even fund some qualified road engineers to do a small survey of a selected road, lobby local politicians etc.... anything - but bottom line is we're supposed to live in a democracy so we should use that and do something......