When Euro's were Americanized??

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When my Euro 1980 -450SL was brought into the States, the guage cluster including the odometer was changed. The maintenace guide went form KM's to the correct level of miles at the next interval.It went from a stamp of 92,295 km to 65436 mi at the US service interval. Is this possible by the importers to correctly set the odometers or did the dealership just use the correct miles through knowledge and not pay attention to the odometer reading?

The timing change was changed at the 80,000 mile mark and the car had additional maintenance at 00862 miles.. The current odometer currently reads 058,XXX not 158,XXX.

I had been assuming that the car had 158K although the odometer said 58K. I wonder though if the car has 65K at odometer change and another 58K for a total of 123k.

The reason it matters is that the current timing chain either has 80K miles or 45K miles, a significant difference.

I tried calling the original owner when the car was bought in the US (1987) but can no longer find them. The records are there, just no clear indication of calculated mileage vs odometer mileage.

The last owner assumed the odometer had rolled over though this is a 6 digit odometer and would reflect that.

Has anyone experienced this that can provide some clarity.
Thanks, Eric