Phew, thank you for the warning! As it turns out I have been 
driving around with a KMPH speedometer for over two years 
now! Lucky for me all of the speed limit signs in Canada are 
also in KMPH so I have been going the CORRECT speed because 
of the coincidence.

Thanks,
Chris

--- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 08:57:50 EDT
>From: Ronald Gregory Smithers <Rgsmithers@AOL.COM>  
>Subject: Warning!!! �Check Your Speedometer  
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>What a busy, busy day I had yesterday and I learned 
something very important.
> Everyone, check your speedometers!!!!  They may be showing 
the speed in
>kilometers per hour and that is ***much*** different from 
miles per hour!
>
>My dear friend, Thor, and I tried to take the Vanagon to be 
detail cleaned
>and polished yesterday. After driving on the four lane 
highway for a few
>miles, Thor, who was following me, started to flash the 
headlights like an
>insane man.  Not knowing what was wrong and more than a 
***little***
>panicked, it was all I could do to pull over without 
wrecking.  I jumped out
>expecting something to be drastically wrong only to be told 
by Thor, in a
>rather snippy tone, that I was driving too slowly.  
Although I kept going
>faster and faster, this same scene was acted out by us 
twice more in ten
>miles.  By the third time we stopped, Thor was having a 
***hissyfit****!!!
>As I thought I had been driving at an absolutely terrifying 
85 miles per
>hour, we decided that my speedometer must be broken.
>
>Instead of the car detail shop, we dropped the Vanagon at 
the Volkswagen
>dealership.  My spirits were lifted when we returned to 
pick up the Vanagon
>because there is nothing wrong with the speedometer 
mechanism. :)  It is only
>that the speedometer shows the speed as kilometers per hour 
which is slower
>than miles per hour.  Look on the face of your speedometer; 
if it says
>"km/h", drive faster.  I know this is hard to believe, but 
it will show 100
>(!!!!) when you are going sixty miles per hour.  Paco, the 
mechanic,
>explained it all to me.  Also, he was very excited about my 
van and he would
>like to buy it whenever I sell it.  You meet the 
***nicest*** people when you
>are driving a Vanagon!
>
>Pinky