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Anyone have a 7 digit odometer?

Lots of Canadian trucks got it as far back as '83. My 83 C1500 has one, so does my '90 Blazer. Both are metric though, I've never seen one in miles before.
 
Do Canadian odometers read in kilometers or miles? I would assume kilometers. 99,999.9 kilometers isn't very many.

Martin
 
Okay, since I can't remember looking at the odometer in the C50 and C60 trucks, did they get that extra digit?
I am too lazy at the moment to go find the one I took out of a C60.
 
82355 said:
Do Canadian odometers read in kilometers or miles? I would assume kilometers. 99,999.9 kilometers isn't very many.

Martin
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Yup, my '83 reads 271,000, my '90 reads 432,000.
 
My '91 V-3500 has 7 digits. It was original sold in Washington state. It is electronic though so that may be a difference also. It reads miles.
 
Well my thought was wrong for the medium duty trucks having them. I looked at this cluster I have and it doesn't have the extra digit.
 
All of the '87 and up Blazers / Pickups / Suburbans I've owned or worked on all had the 6 digit odometer, plus the "tenth's" digit (for 7 numbers total).

But recently I looked at an '89 K5 that did not.

US vehicles, not Canadian.
 
alexsdad said:
All of the '87 and up Blazers / Pickups / Suburbans I've owned or worked on all had the 6 digit odometer, plus the "tenth's" digit (for 7 numbers total).

But recently I looked at an '89 K5 that did not.

US vehicles, not Canadian.
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Same here.
 
Just looked at mine. 87 Jimmy. 5 plus the tenth. I remembered it not having rolled over before I bought it.
 
alexsdad said:
All of the '87 and up Blazers / Pickups / Suburbans I've owned or worked on all had the 6 digit odometer, plus the "tenth's" digit (for 7 numbers total).

But recently I looked at an '89 K5 that did not.

US vehicles, not Canadian.
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My loaded '86 has a 5-digit without trip, my '88 is also 5 digit but it does have the trip.

I had thought ALL the '89-'91 got the extra digit, but I guess that's not right. I've seen a few in the early-mid 80's trucks that also had the extra digit, but I don't know why they had it. Perhaps they were built in Canada but sent to the states? Was there even a factory in Canada that built the trucks?
 
"Was there even a factory in Canada that built the trucks?"

GMC: General Motors of Canada.
 
I have a C60 cluster from an early 80s truck with the extra digit, a tach and a vacuum guage.

I thought all the vss trucks had the extra. Like my 90 burb. Maybe a custom deluxe doesn't? My 88 does not, but its mechanical.
 
USSkoval said:
General Motors Company :waytogo:

Chevrolets and GMCs are built together on the same assembly lines.
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GMC trucks were Canadian built years ago, and a little different than Chevy trucks through the late '60's. :waytogo:
 
alexsdad said:
GMC trucks were Canadian built years ago, and a little different than Chevy trucks through through the late '60's. :waytogo:
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I don't know about where the older ones were built, but I do know it's General Motors Company. I'm pretty sure they were built right with the Chevys then too, like the other GM cars. For example, in '69 a Firebird could have been built immediately behind an Impala.
 
USSkoval said:
My loaded '86 has a 5-digit without trip, my '88 is also 5 digit but it does have the trip.

I had thought ALL the '89-'91 got the extra digit, but I guess that's not right. I've seen a few in the early-mid 80's trucks that also had the extra digit, but I don't know why they had it. Perhaps they were built in Canada but sent to the states? Was there even a factory in Canada that built the trucks?
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Actually in the US 89 and up got the extra digit.
An 89 that doesn't have it is not original.
 
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