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I live in Canada where we determain speed in KM. I'd like to purchase this car from some man and he said it's American.



Does this mean that it'll display speed in Miles? If can it be changed to KM?





The car I'd like to get is an 1987 Benz 190D

yes, it'll display both in miles and km on the speedometer. how do I know? there are two w201 same chassis as the 87 190D you want to get in my back lot, and they both have miles/km.

It doesn',t mater where a car is made, just where it'll be sold. Since imperial is the official measuring system of the U.S., Benz models delivered in the USA are calibrated in miles. As others mentioned, the speedo will have km inside an inner circle on the speedo but the odometre and tripometre measure the distance travelled in miles.



The only way to change the speedometre',s major reading to kilometres and odometre to km on the W201 chassis is to purchase a new speedo.

in the USA at the time your car was made, there were lots of people who flew to Germany to take delivery of their new MB car, it included a two week tour of the country where you accumulated enough mileage to pass a recognized mile point then when you goed to return to the US and ship your car home, you shipped a used car and it saved a ton of money for the owner. It was a loophole as I remember those vehicles, now called gray market cars in California because they weren't essentially made to pass emission control laws in the US, anyway they had a speedometer that displayed KM/hr and not MPH. Sometime in the mid 80',s, American car makers had both, if standard, the miles were on the outside of the circle and kilos were on the inner track, just it used the same needle, it made it easier than converting in your head as you're driving. If electronic you could push the reset button and it could switch between miles and kilos. attempt pushing the buttons on the speedo and see which it has. You may want to look under the hood and see what country that car was first intended for, I know they're real liked in Seattle where they change them to run of recycled cooking grease from fast food restaurants, they say the exhaust then smells like french fries.

good luck.

If you want to make sure, ask the seller.