Metric Instrument lense - 1956

[1project2many]

If you are going to go metric then you might as well go the full route and change the oil presure to kilopascals as well

We could convert the amp meter to a kV measure. The needle won't move much but man, would it be impressive.

[Nev68]

Originally Posted by Nev68

Good idea, I'll see if I can see anything on eBay.
I am talking to an instrument business now and it seems like they can make a lense but I am still making sure we are talking about the same thing.

Found a metric car version on eBay, but no luck with a truck version.

[Nev68]

Originally Posted by coralhead

If you are going to go metric then you might as well go the full route and change the oil presure to kilopascals as well

Lol. ...and the temp gauge to Celsius?

[Nev68]

Originally Posted by 1project2many

We could convert the amp meter to a kV measure. The needle won't move much but man, would it be impressive.

I think I would need to go digital for kV reading.

[poncho_villa]

I completely re-did my instrument cluster a couple of years ago and seriously thought of changing the numbers to metric. You would have to make your own from a piece of plexiglas or lexan like Ogre mentioned. I decided to leave mine in mph because I'm an old bugger that still remembers the years before we converted here in Canada plus I am not that far from the border and visit the U.S. on occasion. Beside, I never check my speed anyways.

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by poncho_villa

Beside, I never check my speed anyways.

all hail ponch_villa
my kind of guy

[Nev68]

Originally Posted by poncho_villa

I completely re-did my instrument cluster a couple of years ago and seriously thought of changing the numbers to metric. You would have to make your own from a piece of plexiglas or lexan like Ogre mentioned. I decided to leave mine in mph because I'm an old bugger that still remembers the years before we converted here in Canada plus I am not that far from the border and visit the U.S. on occasion. Beside, I never check my speed anyways.

We have so many speed cameras here (fixed and mobile) that we have to check our speed otherwise we would be without drivers licence very quickly.......and if we get caught exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 kmh it is a $340 fine, more than 20 kmh = $690, more than 30 kmh = $820 and more than 45kmh = $930

[poncho_villa]

Originally Posted by Nev68

We have so many speed cameras here (fixed and mobile) that we have to check our speed otherwise we would be without drivers licence very quickly.......and if we get caught exceeding the speed limit by more than 10 kmh it is a $340 fine, more than 20 kmh = $690, more than 30 kmh = $820 and more than 45kmh = $930

Wow! That sure is heavy handed. We don't have that level of enforcement here YET. We have occasional random radar traps. In this part of Canada we don't often see a cop and because of that we have an abundance of bad drivers that know they can get away with whatever they do. Dash-cams are getting popular.
My apologies to the OP for getting off topic.

[OrrieG]

Here it depends on the State and cops state of mind when you get stopped. For example, in Eastern Oregon they have jurisdictions that seem to rely on speeding revenues to supplement the budget. Posted limits on long open desert roads is 55 mph, they will usually give you a pass on 10 over. Greater then that will get you a ticket, 20 over was $175 in 2005, last year I got a ticket. Actually I was going much faster then that, but the Sheriff wrote the ticket for 74, because 20 over would have required a mandatory hearing before the magistrate on Monday (it was Sunday afternoon) and he accepted my excuse that I was just in a hurry to get back home and work after spending a week attending my fathers heart surgery (true story) and I was familiar with the roads because I drive them so much (3 times a year for since 1978). I also know where all the speed traps are and do still do not know where that guy was hiding! I paid the fine and asked the magistrate to not report the ticket to Idaho because of my good driving record, which he agreed with so it did not show up anywhere to affect my insurance rates or Idaho points. Since then, I have gotten stopped twice and just got stern warnings to show down, probably because it was during show traffic and I was only 20 over....

[Nev68]

Originally Posted by poncho_villa

Wow! That sure is heavy handed. We don't have that level of enforcement here YET. We have occasional random radar traps. In this part of Canada we don't often see a cop and because of that we have an abundance of bad drivers that know they can get away with whatever they do. Dash-cams are getting popular.
My apologies to the OP for getting off topic.

Common thought here is that it is just a form of revenue raising since we have not really seen much of a decrease in road fatalities.
We have cameras at major intersections (speed and red light), many police cars and bikes have speed detection devices, specific and unmarked cars parked on the road side (looked like parked cars if you are not paying attention) to detect speeding that move every hour or so and recently added to freeways and major country roads we have cameras that take an image of your car / number plate at point A and point B to calculate your average speed. .....a bit "Big Brother".