When i purchased it on Sat he said the mileage was in klm, however driving back home, the speedo and miles were in mph.
Its done 139000 and was imported in 2006, the previous mots say Miles, even the first one.
Have a been a silly here
or how can i check ? if at all.
Thanks
Craig
follow someone else arround for a bit, then compare tacho readings…
done that and the mileage travelled was correct in mph
You can rule out a 0-140mph face has been fitted to a 0-180kph speedo. If the speedo is 0-110 or 0-120mph, the odometer is in kms. If the speedo is 0-180mph, the odometer is reading in miles, but its virtually impossible to determine that actually aggregate miles on the car, as you don’t know when the speedo conversion was carried out. However, its safe to assume it was probably done in 2006. If you don’t have the first MOT from 2006, you can check it online.
Caught my attention, this one. I’ve just had my 1992 MX5 for a couple of months, use it for work by necessity, so haven’t had time to do much with it but drive (Oh, poor soul! Never mind). BUT, here’s the thing, I’m pretty sure that the mph displayed is correct, 'cos I’ve purposely done just over 30mph and got flashed by those stupid reminder signs that they put up now in built-up areas. But I also have to record my mileage when travelling for work, and a fixed distance ride is always showing far more on the mileometer than on my previous wagon. So, is it possible that I’ve got a speedo reading in mph with a mileometer built into it reading in kilometres?? Seems highly weird and unlikely, but what other explanation is there?
my roadster has had dial face changed, so it reads speed in miles, but it reads distance in klms, not unusual…
Aha! Looks as if our posts crossed. It seems as if you’re saying that what I thought was peculiar is perhaps commonplace. Not being a whizz on this sort of stuff, I can only say that I thought the speedometer was run by a system that either used a cable to the engine (yes, even I know that was phased out with Austin 7’s) or some method of laser-reading wheel speed, or engine speed, or some other method somewhere in between these two. But I also presumed that whatever method was used, it ran both mph and mileometer, as the two are, or should be, unfailingly linked. In order for the speed to read in mph and the distance in kilometres, there would have to be two completely independent systems feeding to the one clock. (I am clearly uneducated in these things, but I intend to find out a lot more as time goes by and I restore my faithful chariot.)
Speed in miles distance in Kilometers on imports, unless the dials have been changed,
Not necessarily. I hadn’t realised this before, but it may be possible for the speed to be in mph and the odomoter to read in km. I’m making this stuff up as I go, but stick with it. It may make sense.
Let’s start by assuming that the original equipment is in kilometres for both speed and distance. The odomoter is a simple mechanical counter. It counts the number of revolutions of the engine and converts them into km driven. The speedometer drives a needle around a dial. The faster you go, the further around the dial the needle goes.
Okay, so now let’s convert this to good old british imperial. Pounds, shillings and pence.
The easiest way to do this is simply to swap the paper dials over from km to miles. The engine is still pushing the needle around the dial. Only now the dial reads miles per hour instead of km per hour. But the odometer will be still be clicking over in kilometres. The information from the engine hasn’t changed. The only thing we have done is to recalibrate the dials so that we are showing a true mph on the dials.
If we did this, the speedo would read in mph but the odometer would read in km.
There may be other ways to convert from km to miles that don’t involve changing the dials, so presumably this won’t always be the case. I guess the only way to check this is to compare your car against another that you trust.
Which has got me thinking. My car was converted from km to miles. I know it is showing mph. But I had always assumed that the 100,000 on the clock were at least partly miles. Maybe they are wholly km? Hmmm. I feel some testing coming on.
Usually if only the speedo has been converted to miles and the odometer is still is km then the letters KM are next to the odometer reading.
Yep, mine’s the same. Speed in mph, odometer in km.
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Sounds like it as had a dial face change, most common on importing as this works out cheaper than a speed converter on the gearbox, Mk1speedo is cable, there after is electric, try and find a local hot spot that as a electric speed notice with no camera, the type that tell you your speed in green if 30 and under, or bad boy red, over 30, I use them the set dials with a sat nav.<o:p></o:p>
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Just wanted to say thanks to all the input that we’ve had here. Being a dense old b***er it never occurred to me how simple it would be simply to change the face of the clock!! And, as repeatedly pointed out, that leaves the distance clocking up in kilometres, not miles. Which is good news, really, 'cos that 125k is km and converts to only 78k miles. Seems very low for a 1992, imported in 1997, but I do know at least that the last owner didn’t do a lot in it, and it was garaged for a while - must try and find out how long. Think I may have got old MoT certs when I got the car, so first I’ll see how far back they go.
I must admit that it only occurred to me when this thread got me thinking about it. Before that I was assuming that everything was in miles in mine after it was converted from km.
So, Bev, if you are dense, so am I!
You can use the code on your current MOT to read data from that car’s previous MOTs on line, even if you no longer have paper copies.
I just checked my first MOT the car had in 2006 since the import in 2006 and it showed as 120,226 so that must be Kms
I hope thats right.
Thanks for that, Muppet. I’ll have a look as soon as I find time! Got a doctor’s appointment this morning (which is the only reason I’m still here at this time on a working day), then work, unfortunately.
May have been mentioned previously , but couldn’t you drive the Eunos and compare against a sat- nav in the car ? My sat-nav is accurate in mph and distance.
Maybe i should have worded my question better, because i still don’t have the answer.
My odometer is showing 139000 , i purchased the car at the weekend, the speedo works in MPH as does the odemeter.
However the guy i purcahsed it off said the odemeter is in klm.
The car was imported in 2006 & the first mot showed the milage in Miles as 122000.
So am i now siting with a car with the odemeter having a mixture of Miles & KLM??
I suppose , i could just say it was in KLM up until 122000 & then Miles afterwards.
Regard’s
Craig