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Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass

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In article <db9phc-itp.ln1@porter.pffcu.org>,
S. Checker <spam.sc@gmail.com> wrote:
> In alt.fan.cecil-adams Hactar <ebenZEROONE@verizon.net> wrote:
> > In article <2bohhc-fql.ln1@porter.pffcu.org>,
> > S. Checker <spam.sc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> wrote:
> >>  
> >> > Normally Canada follows the US on car design regulations.  But in the
> >> > eighties it became mandatory to have a bright lights facing forward
> >> > whenever the car is on.  Most cars just use the regular low beams.
> >> > Some (I hate 'em) use the high beams at slightly lower brightness.
> >> > Others have bright yellow or special-purpose lights bright enough to
> >> > qualify.  (Audi has myriad shapes and patterns of white LEDs on
> >> > various cars).
> >> > 
> >> > Since our car industries are so tightly linked, I'm surprised that a
> >> > rule like this has been in place for a quarter century in one country
> >> > and ignored in the other.
> >> 
> >> This is a pisser for me - our Chrysler minivan, which of course is also
> >> sold in Canadia, doesn't have daylight running lights (DRL), which I
> >> would be OK with, and doesn't have the headlights go on and off with
> >> the ignition, which my Subaru does. So I did some searching to see if
> >> there was a setting I could change to enable DRL, and found that the
> >> only way to enable it is to tell the onboard computer that the car was
> >> sold in Canada.
> > 
> > Is there a reason you can't do that?
> 
> My main concern is that it will switch the interface to metric, which
> the WD could not care for. It's also potentially a point of contention
> with the dealer if it comes to warranty work.

Maybe there's another English-speaking region that works, or you can
choose Imperial/metric independently of "country of purchase".  (I had to
localize some device to Ireland to get a 24-hour clock, so I'm familiar
with "feature shopping".)  UK uses miles for distance.  It uses liters
for volume and there are some vocabulary/spelling differences, so yeah
ask the dealer and WD.

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Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2015-11-13 14:35 -0500
  Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass spam.sc@gmail.com (S. Checker) - 2015-11-16 10:29 -0500
    Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2015-11-16 11:27 -0500
      Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-11-16 10:22 -0700
        Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) - 2015-11-16 14:41 -0500
  Re: OT Question about SWMBO's Jeep Compass usenet@only.tnx (Questor) - 2018-04-17 07:25 +0000

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