digital speedo

[gottavecalaisv]

Hi all, i did a search but couldn't find what i was looking for. is it possible to change my speedo readout to digital or do holden need to do it. car is a 2003 series 1 calais.

[trentvy]

you mean police mode?

[gottavecalaisv]

i think so yes

[krazyboris]

nah, gotta take it to a holden dealership, it's a tech 2 thing. Should take them about 5 minutes.

[Flat_White]

anyone know what price we would be looking at?

[alien]

Depends on who you know, and if you dont know anyone with a Tech 2, then where you go. Prices seem to vary for some reason! :S But if you take your car in for a service most places will do the change for free.

[James_yo7]

hold the mode + up button when you start the car and flick through the modes until you get to the digital speedo. presto

[DUK13Y]

hold the mode + up button when you start the car and flick through the modes until you get to the digital speedo. presto

Is this feature on every model? I have a berlina and think it would be pretty cool to have instead of looking at a odometer read out.

[gottavecalaisv]

hold the mode + up button when you start the car and flick through the modes until you get to the digital speedo. presto

that option is not on my calais?

[ashbox]

thats because on the vy/z's its the mode and set buttons.

the only prob for the vy's is that you have to do this everytime you start the car because the dash goes back to norm once the ign is turned off.

your better off getting police mode activated, nothing changes besides the digital speed readout from startup

[Phreddy]

.... except that you lose the speed alert feature when Police mode is enabled....

[James_yo7]

so basicly you have it exactly the same with your fuel distance to empty, odometer and trip meter, and instead of your speed alert its just a digital speedo? and you can flick through them normally like before?
is that what your all talking about?

not the service mode where you change it completely and it brings up temps and the digital speedo?

[danja]

I could never understand why people think the digital readout is such a great feature when the speedo is about 5cm above it? Fuel consuption/trip meter much more useful IMO

[policehoon]

my VZ Equipe has the lot, digital speedo, speed alert, fuel consumption.

But its not a ex police vehicle, it was a company car...

Is this normal?

[Phreddy]

Yes - the VZ has the digital speedo in the default configuration, across all models.

When "Police Mode" is enabled in VY models, the digital speedo and another oddball option (called "trap speed" or something - not quite sure what that does...) - are enabled. That's NOT the small digital speedo readout you can select in the extended trip options, the large font as in the VZs. It's also available on the trip options with a normal start-up too, instead of having to manually select the extended option menus. The enabling of this in the VY however does mean the speed alert function is no longer available. All other trip functions are unaffected as far as I know.

[Phreddy]

Did a "Police mode" config last weekend - VY SS - works great!

MFD defaults to digital speedo on start-up, all other tip functions are fine apart from overspeed as mentioned.

Oh, and "trap speed" works on police mode or not - whilst in digi speedo mode press the "Mode" button, and it simply "captures" the current digital speedo reading and displays it for 5 seconds or so - it can be recalled later or cleared using other button combos.

But in a nutshell, digital speedo for the VY works fine, and is fairly easy to get set up.

[SAV_117]

just press mode and set while starting the car i have a vy lumina 02 works fine lol ill film it if i have to just cycle through menu and u will find it i can film it if someone wants. to be honest readout is small

[Phreddy]

Yeh, exactly SAV - but this is the "service mode" - sometimes called "extended options" - this requires that you do the key combo every startup. Also the font is so small as to be ineffective in real driving conditions - requires too much concentration.

What we're on about is the activation of the large font digi speedo like the VZs all have as standard. It is do-able in the VY, but requires that "police mode" is enabled. This causes the loss of the speed alert function, but defaults to the large font digital speedo on start-up. WITHOUT having to hold down certain button combos and flick through several options before the one you want is displayed. It's a convenience thing really...

It's easy enough to do with the right tools - and by "tools" I don't necessarily mean spanners and screwdrivers, tools can be software based as well...

(you can also find several "tools" on certain other unmentionable forums! )

[SAV_117]

ahhh kk thanks myy bad

[scottifa]

I just rang my local holden dealer. They didn't really know what I was on about, but for $138 they would give it a go. Of course I declined as I dont believe the feature is worth that much.

[trentvy]

did you ask about police mode?

[scottifa]

did you ask about police mode?

well, yes. Thats what they didnt know what I was talking about. Girl reacted like Id just knicked a cop car.
I asked to speak to one of the techs who said he think hes heard of it but has never done it.

[TI0350]

well, yes. Thats what they didnt know what I was talking about. Girl reacted like Id just knicked a cop car.
I asked to speak to one of the techs who said he think hes heard of it but has never done it.

Got the same looks 2 yrs ago when i got it done on my SS, one tech didn't know what i was talking about the other one said it was illegal in the end they wanted to charge me $50 to do it..

[one_and_only2004]

I think the trick is to go in on a saturday when noone but the serviceman's there. He enabled my rear channels of the ute in about 3mins for free.
He was a bit worried about police mode though - thought he might break something...

[Calaber]

And all these guys at Holden workshops aren the highly trained technical staff we keep hearing about.........