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| posted on June 18th, 2009 at 06:15 PM |
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L Bug Speedo Question
Hi everyone ,
Im hoping someone can help me with this.
If you put a L bug speedo face plate of a KPH on the same speedo but in MPH will that work, Or do they sell a aftermarket face plate conversion.
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| posted on June 18th, 2009 at 07:48 PM |
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yes it will work
You just need to be REAL carefull taking the needle off.
Never done it - but a bloke on SBO use to sell speedos with colour screen printed faces.
I "think" Joel has done a few
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| posted on June 18th, 2009 at 09:05 PM |
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dylan save me replying to your PM, yes you can
100mph equals 160km/h so yep but the odometer will still read in miles naturally but so what, most of them dont read accurately anyway
i checked that speedo against the GPS before i sent it to you and it was within 1km so aslong as the needle postion doesnt get messed up it will read
right with a KM face
Barry, that'd be Brian with the red cab and blue eurolooker
he had some nice faces availble, i just got a white indiglow one made here in aus
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| posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 01:01 PM |
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I Converted the MPH speedo but not with the face plate. Im going to scan it and screen print some off if anyone wants any to convert the MPH speedo.
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| posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 02:56 PM |
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... the L- and non-L speedo face plates are not interchangeable. Is that what you were asking?
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| posted on June 23rd, 2009 at 04:47 PM |
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No no , i know that but i was asking if you could put a KPH speedo face on and MPH speedo. NOTE: We are only talking about L BUG speedos here. 
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| posted on June 24th, 2009 at 08:43 AM |
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... be easier to simply fit a KM/H speedo. Do you have a UK import or something?
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| posted on June 24th, 2009 at 09:25 AM |
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No , just standard L BUG.
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| posted on June 24th, 2009 at 10:00 PM |
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early 73Ls are in MPH
the speedo i sent dylan was dated 9/72
but obviously the change over month was 6/73 cos my convertable was originally in MPH but the other blue 6/73 i had was in KMH
L and flat screen faces are the same just Ls are slightly wider wiht bigger idiot lights
my white indiglo was meant for a standard
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| posted on June 25th, 2009 at 07:01 PM |
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posted by Joel
early 73Ls are in MPH
the speedo i sent dylan was dated 9/72
but obviously the change over month was 6/73 cos my convertable was originally in MPH but the other blue 6/73 i had was in KMH
L and flat screen faces are the same just Ls are slightly wider wiht bigger idiot lights
my white indiglo was meant for a standard
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Thanks everyone i have converted a MPH speedo joel gave me and have kept the old broken KPH speedo for spares. I will post a pic up soon but here is a
picture of a KPH speedo face of mine. If you print this out then cut it out you can use it as a stick on conversion but i recomend using a lazer or
screen printer to print it out. It is to scale so dont modify the size just print out. Also this speedo is not like other KPH speedos i have seen
because it has 5 idiot light spots one is ATF and not sure what the other extra one is. But it is a 7/75 year speedo.
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| posted on June 26th, 2009 at 09:01 AM |
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must be from a euro speedo
the extra idiot light is for the city lights
comes up green when you put the parkers on
alot of semi-auto bugs have that as most if not all were fully imported
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| posted on June 26th, 2009 at 11:33 AM |
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Yer im gunna hang onto it.
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