Documenting My Journey to Buy a Grenadier in Canada

[Dogwood]

Hi from Vancouver, B.C. Sorry if I am late to the party on this issue... I have a 2024 Trialmaster, purchased at Weissach Vancouver in July 2024. My first trip to Moab, UTAH in October 2024 I was surprised and incredibly dissapointed to realized I was unable to switch from KPH to MPH. This trip included hours of highway driving while searching the settings and 2 calls to Weissach for help. It was confirmed not possible to switch from KPH to MPH. A year later in fall of 2025 I had a service update and it fixed this limitation. I am now able to very easily switch back and forth. SETTINGS....GENERAL....UNIT.....Choose "Kilometres" or "Miles".

Very interesting. And good to know that’s an option on vehicles sold in Canada. It’s too bad US sold vehicles don’t have this option. I’m sure it’s a trivial firmware install for a dealer to fix this on an imported vehicle, but convincing a dealer to do so would be another matter.

 

[CRH]

Very interesting. And good to know that’s an option on vehicles sold in Canada. It’s too bad US sold vehicles don’t have this option. I’m sure it’s a trivial firmware install for a dealer to fix this on an imported vehicle, but convincing a dealer to do so would be another matter.

Is this legislation in the USA to not allow you to swap your vehicle to kmh when travelling.
I recall seeing older US cars having only mph on the speedo when we had started putting kmh inside the main dial. Did European vehicles with traditional dials have the kmh inset in the dial or were yours changed? Seems an odd requirement!

 

[Dogwood]

Is this legislation in the USA to not allow you to swap your vehicle to kmh when travelling.
I recall seeing older US cars having only mph on the speedo when we had started putting kmh inside the main dial. Did European vehicles with traditional dials have the kmh inset in the dial or were yours changed? Seems an odd requirement!

I think it was answered somewhere on the forum, but as I recall, in the US you must have MPH displayed. It's ok to have both MPH and KPH displayed, but if your vehicle was bought / sold in the US then that vehicle must have MPH displayed. Since the Grenadier's display for speed only shows one number (either MPH or KPH) the US vehicles are locked to only display MPH. I think EU / RoW cars only display KPH on standard analogue gauges. In Canada it's standard to have both KPH (in larger font) and MPH (in smaller font) on analogue tachometers. But yeah, I suspect it's a US legislation thing where somebody got up and said: