Am i being stupid? Odometer in miles or kilometers?

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yfo866

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I reckon my speedometer reads in KMP, not MPH as the 100 is on the outside(big numbers) and the 60 is on the inside(small numbers)
So, assuming i have a 'foreign' spec speedo, are those 33822 units miles or kilometers?
I do apologise for the state of the speedo but i haven't got around to organising a visit by a valet yet :)
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Yup you are right.. quite normal for country which uses KpH over MPH. Not sure but I had a UK Series3 and it was the same.
 
It's a 101 ambulance. At the moment undrivable due to the brakes. Thinking about it, i've 'driven' it around the block a couple of times and it's gone up by 3 Mile-ometers, so it's probably recording kilometers.
Which will be cool as it will have gone less far🤔 than i thought.
If it is, what do i change to make it record miles and not kilometers? The speedo might be the same as a standard Series 3 so i could swap the dial over but would i need to change something in the gearbox that turns the speedo cable or is it a speedo clock recalibration job?
Isn't there a worm drive in the gearbox? Could it be there are two sorts? Miles and kilometers?
I wouldn't mind but according to my records, 72GJ27 lived in UK apart from nipping out to Iraq with the Gurkhas for a year.
In fact, it spent more time parked at Ashchurch than zooming about making NEE-NAR noises!
 
That odometer is in Kilometres, they always match the major scale of the speedometer, which is marked as Km/h
Edited to add:-
The speedo drive will be the same, only the speedo / odometer head will need to be changed.
The speedo is already calibrated to indicate the speed in MPH & Km/h, only the odometer calibration will be different (number of internal revolutions per digit increment) for miles.
Quite how you go about validating to DVLA the change in indicated distance travelled, I have no idea.
 
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