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Mine is originally a US car, maximum speed is shown as 200 regardless of KPH or MPH. If driving down the road and you switch, the needle drops/rises and the readout changes to KPH/MPH. I honestly can't imagine the speedo on CAD delivered cars having a 300KPH max, otherwise when you switch to MPH you'd have a 300MPH speedo. Are you sure....? My car simply maxes out at 200, regardless of the unit measured.
If I go over 200KPH either I need to use the HUD to display (only shows starting at 0 again) or switch to MPH to see any further rise.
I have this issue and could care less (except when I take second place because my newer hud console has 70K less than what the car really has as tie breakers go to the car with most mileage). My 98 did not have the HUD so I upgraded (ZO6 display and love it). Come on these are C-5's the price is low to get them. The mileage is something to consider but the shape of the car is what is important. Your usually going to find a well kept car or one that's been beaten up! Mine? Actual miles around 150K reading? 80K! Hummm1
Thanks JR-01! Very cool info. Not that I'll likely ever hit over 200KPH....
They should have put the 300 Km/miles per hour speedometers in all C5s. It would have been a conversation starter and it probably would have saved GM some money.
When I added HUD to my 99 I discovered the original cluster did not support it and I needed a new one. There were plenty of used ones on Flea-bay and the prices reflected the millage on each. Lower millage cluster demanded much higher price which made me think of how many people are actually swapping them to cheat and get better price for lower millage car. I went with one that read 12K more than my actual millage so as not to have any issues or questions down the road. The $500/1000 depreciated value because of higher millage was worth it to me as appose to having to explain the discrepancy down the road. I do wonder if the actual millage is also recorded somewhere else or just the cluster and if so how difficult would it be to retrieve it. It would be nice to be able to take the car to a dealer and they could confirm what the actual millage is and not just what is recorded on the cluster.
When I bought my used 2001 C5 vert the dealer ('vette only shop owned by a former NCRS judge) worked with me to reconcile a discrepancy in the carfax report.
They talked with a master tech at the chevy dealer and said that they were told that the C5 has a second odometer buried in the car's computer. You can't read it without having the hardware to connect to the proper module.
Anyone here know if that is true? Or were they blowing smoke at me?
