Change instrument cluster in TCH to metric system

[gvrv]

Hello.

This is my first post!
I have just imported a TCH from US to Europe, and I am loving the car, but there is only one problem for me:
- the car has the instrument cluster in Miles, and temperatures of Ac on ºF...

-Does anyone know where I can buy a canadian Instrument cluster so that I can have the speed in Km and the consumption needle in L\100km?
- Does anyone know how to change the temperature values of the Ac from ºF to Celcius?

Thanks for your help!

Ps: Sorry if the quality of my english is not very good.

[lzolka]

Originally Posted by gvrv

-Does anyone know where I can buy a canadian Instrument cluster so that I can have the speed in Km and the consumption needle in L\100km?
- Does anyone know how to change the temperature values of the Ac from ºF to Celcius?

In the service can set the multi-information display, in my car the dealer already set to metrical system, then it looks like this:


In Budapest (Hungary) this is cost about 135 euros. , i havent figured out how it could be done at home.

Other homemade modify for european users in my website (navi DVD, FM radio, door-opener, etc):
http://www.tar.hu/lzolka/tch.html

[gvrv]

Hello

I ended buyng a canadian camry, with everythig in kms and ºC..

Izolka!!!! let me just say that your website is EXCELLENT....
you don't even imagine how much I have searched the internet to try to know if it is possible to make the navigation work in Europe!

Excellent website with excellent trics (for people who live in europe)

I have two questions for you:
- did you already managed to make the voice guidance work?
- I have a standard JBL radio... do you know why the names of the radio don't appear on the screen? it only apperas for example 98.7... I tried to press TEXT button but nothing happens....

Thanks

[lzolka]

Originally Posted by gvrv

- did you already managed to make the voice guidance work?

I'm still working on it, I haven't figured out yet how to combine the American and the European discs properly. As soon as I have it done, I'll describe the 'how it's made' on my page.

Originally Posted by gvrv

- I have a standard JBL radio... do you know why the names of the radio don't appear on the screen? it only apperas for example 98.7... I tried to press TEXT button but nothing happens....

I'm sorry, but I am not familiar with the standard radio, so I haven't met this kind of problem before. I can't help you with that. The radio channel names, soundtrack performers and titles, etc. come from the RDS information. My best - and unfortunately the only - advice is that you should look in your device's Users' Manual for what it says about RDS display feature.

[crasher17]

That is good news. so I can change it. Here in Canada the dealer told me that I have to buy new cluster for my US car. Bunch of crooks.

Originally Posted by lzolka

In the service can set the multi-information display, in my car the dealer already set to metrical system, then it looks like this:


In Budapest (Hungary) this is cost about 135 euros. , i havent figured out how it could be done at home.

Other homemade modify for european users in my website (navi DVD, FM radio, door-opener, etc):
http://www.tar.hu/lzolka/tch.html

[bkushner]

yeah but how?

[bkushner]

i found it on his link

[bkushner]

can you tell on his link how to change energy consumption on the nav display?
Found it, there is a button to change the language of his page to english.