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Offline ed2708

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Getting MPH on the display
« on: 15 March 2011, 12:03 »
Good Afternoon

my car was being serviced yesterday and i asked the dealer to change the digital display from kph to mph. they say its impossible but having searched i see it is possible but cant find any info on how its done. does it need vagcom and will a dealer have it? can someone let me have instructions i can pass to the dealer?

thanks

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Offline DRC

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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #1 on: 15 March 2011, 17:54 »
Ed,

Doubt the dealer will do it. I believe its part of EU law for the car to display mph and kph but someone kind enough on here should be able to do it for you :)

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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #2 on: 15 March 2011, 18:00 »
You set the instruments to "rest o the world" using vag com, then you can have the large MPH  :wink:
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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #3 on: 16 March 2011, 21:01 »
so if i just tell the dealer to set it to rest of the world on vagcom they will know what to do then? sounds too easy
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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #4 on: 16 March 2011, 21:13 »
Sounds easy to us, maybe not so for the trained monkeys at VW :)
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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #5 on: 17 March 2011, 05:01 »
VW will either:

A. Do it (3% chance)
B. Report you to the police for some war crime or something as they'll have no clue what you mean (97% chance)

And yes, it really is that easy to do plus you get the bonus of being able to choose kmh in the small section of the fuel computer OR the far more useful external temp  :wink:
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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #6 on: 17 March 2011, 11:55 »
I don't get why you would want a digital readout in mph as well as the big round dial.

What are you going to do if you drive in Europe? It'd be a bit of a faff having to get it changed back to kph again.
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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #7 on: 17 March 2011, 13:13 »
Quote from: dubber36 on 17 March 2011, 11:55
What are you going to do if you drive in Europe? It'd be a bit of a faff having to get it changed back to kph again.

No, not really you click from temp to KPH in the DIS  :wink:
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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #8 on: 17 March 2011, 21:04 »
Quote from: The Doc on 17 March 2011, 13:13
No, not really you click from temp to KPH in the DIS  :wink:

I have temp and MPH on mine...

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Re: Getting MPH on the display
« Reply #9 on: 18 March 2011, 06:15 »
Quote from: p3eps on 17 March 2011, 21:04
Quote from: The Doc on 17 March 2011, 13:13
No, not really you click from temp to KPH in the DIS  :wink:

I have temp and MPH on mine...


Yes, me too...

He said it's a pain to go back from temp to kmph not you cant get mph and temp  :wink:
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