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Originally Posted by OrangeFurious
Last night I parked that car with 95k or so miles on the odometer. An hour or two later I came out to find the dash sitting at 156k+. After a moment of deep confusion I realized it was set to KM not miles. Stayed that way the drive home.
Today I'm back at 95k miles.
WTF?
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Metrics to English conversion will happen if you press the odometer reset button while you turn the key to off. So usually when it happens by accident you're trying to use one of the hidden test menu options it's really easy to accidentally switch to metric. I did the same thing by accident a couple days ago and I left it so much easier to tell if you're going to have to worry about ice when it's positive versus negative.
Actually I spoke too soon because I'm looking at my dashboard and it is still in miles how confusing is that. I'm sure that odometer conversion is something similar maybe you press the button while you're trying to ignition on for example
This does remind me of one of the best pranks I ever played. We were in a rental car and I was in the passenger seat when the driver hit full throttle to get onto the freeway. When he looked left to check his blind spot I happened to notice a big button in the middle of the dash that said E/M on it. Right about the time we were crossing 60 65 mph I hit that button and then it jumped to 110 km/h.
Since it was a rental car that had a fairly good engine in it and the guy actually thought he was going over a hundred miles an hour. Pretty much once in a lifetime chance for the set up on that one
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