instrument panel swap

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RobKlinky

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Hi everybody. My 04 Limited was originally a Canadian vehicle now residing here in the USA. I would like to swap in a new (junkyard) instrument panel so that US standard units would be the primary and the metric units would be secondary on the speedometer.
My questions are:
1. Would the odometer now use miles?
2. What would happen to my current odometer reading? Would I need to have the computer re-calibrated/replaced also?
3. Would the speedometer need to be adjusted?
Anybody do this before?
Thanks
 

JeepinJarhead03

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odometer has to be calibrated to the reflected miles the ECM has otherwise the vehicle will shut down. a dealership can change the country code on the ecm from CAN to US in order to switch the system from using kilometers to miles , both steps necessary to switch over to a new US standard unit cluster , and to have the odo show mi rather than km
 

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55, 70, 90, 105, 115kph it's not that bad :p
tbh, for the cost of doing all that, i'd probably superglue a 50 dollar garmin to the dash and leave it on the speedo function and permanently wire it in
 
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Dealer wants 100 bucks to reprogram my speedometer for the different size tires.

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some dealers are dbags about it, some will do it for free to attempt to earn your business, and some will do just about anything for ya off the books if you bring them a few large pizzas lol
 

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