yeah, on an old car a 99,999km speedo is useless for seeing how many km's a car has done, I can easily do that in 4-5 years. Besides it doesn't really matter, as we know most minis have or will be totally rebuilt from the ground up at least once in their lives

I might have missed something here but why don't you just change just the speedo part and not all of the guages this way you won't have to re wire (is this what you mean) also I am not too sure but I suspect from my fiddling about with speedos that the metric and mph speedos are exactly the same (I could be wrong here) so to change to metric all that might be required is to change the ring that has km/h or mph on it for the appropriate ring the faces of the speedo may also be changeable so that is possible too but this means (if I remeber correctly) that you would have to take the needle off and this could upset the calibration of your speedo.

my 2 cents

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I fcuked the original one up while cleaning it, so replaced it legal or not....pffffttttt

That is exactly what i am doing. The new speedo does not have the high beam in it as the GT speedo does. In the van cluster the high beam replaces an extra warning light that existed in the GT. It is a bit hard to describe which is why I did my original post the way it is. I have just thought of another problem, is the fuel gauge the same in a car as a van, as they had two different tanks, were the senders the same? The issue of winding the speedo back was to align it with the original speedo on a conversion basis. Neither car has been registered for years and who is to say that the instruments weren't in the vehicle and I had to get more from a wreck. That really is not that important I need the warning light issue addressed at the moment

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You can take the speedo mechanism only out of the plastic case it is in (there are two brass screws at the back) and you can just replace this with the other speedo mechanism and surrounding ring with the km/hr on it the electronics type stuff is left as is because you only change the speedo and ring nothing else. The plastic case is the same one you used previously

The screws I mean are indicated by the purple arrows below:


You will have to take off the glass and front of the speedo guage to get the speedo mechanism out but that's easy and I don't have a piccie of it

Oh sorry I just reread your post...

Do you mean that the front face of the speedo you are putting in covers up the warning lights or it just doesn't fit. in which case I would be checking whether the rings with the mph and kph printed on them line up(60miles is at about the same place as 100km and zero is at the same place on both) and if they do (which I suspect they probably do) just change them over although some of the clubby speedos had miles/hr and km/hr but the miles were on the outside ring so if your metric speedo does that then it wouldn't work

Sorry this sounds confusing

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On the GT speedo the high beam light is at the bottom of the speedo mask which has the calibrations on it. So if I put the late model speedo in the high beam light disappears.

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