Used “Canadian” trucks
Been looking at a few used newer model year used heavy duty pick ups. Some I have seen here in the Pacific NW are having Canadian window stickers from new that say “Not for Sale in US”. Dealers are no...
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rhagfo wrote:ktmrfs wrote:StirCrazy wrote:spud1957 wrote:StirCrazy wrote:ScottG wrote:
On the newer trucks, just a button on the dash changes all the readouts from Metric to SAE.
the physical speed guage doesnt change though,they have both metric and SAE on them and if its a canadian modle it will have the metric promanant and the sae in small numbers , I dont know if the US models have the opposit or just SAE. for example in my canadin f350 platinum I can switch all my readouts to SAE but that is just for the odomiter, tempature, fuel range and such like that. My spedomiter will still show me both at the same time, just the metric is more prominant.
Steve
I am not sure what you are asking exactly?
Steve
What does SAE stand for with regards to a measurement that's used in only three countries in the world?
well, it's the Imperial system vs. metric rather than SAE
feet/gallons (of which there are two, U.S. gallons (4qts) and Imperial gallons (5qts)) /pounds. those terribly antiquated and unrelated methods used in the U.S, myanmar, liberia
vs. kg, meters, litres used by the rest of the world.
Actually it's the "consumer" side of the US hung up on the antiquated system. Thankfully most every company mfg products has switched to the metric system for hardware.
Don't know about Ford or GM, but my Rams both the 2001 and the 2016 are 100% metric.
GM started migrating to metric in the early 80's and by the 90's was almost all metric. Only a few holdover parts were fractional. On my 95 S10 it was virtually all metric hardware.
About the only thing I've found non metric anymore are things like gallons of milk, pounds of coffee and speed limit and mileage signs, sq ft. of houses, etc.
