Odometer:
Registers the total miles
(kilometers) of the vehicle.
Refer to
Message center
in the
Driver Controls
chapter on how to
switch the display from Metric to
English and the odometer to the
speedometer.
Trip odometer:
Registers the miles
(kilometers) of individual journeys.
Press and release the message
center INFO button until “TRIP”
appears in the display (this
represents the trip mode). Press the
control again to select Trip A and
Trip B features. Press and hold the
RESET button to reset.
Hour meter (if equipped):
Your vehicle may be equipped with an hour
meter to indicate how much time the vehicle is idling in Park or Neutral.
The meter is incorporated with the vehicle odometer. Press and release
the message center INFO button until “ENG HRS XXXX” appears in the
display. Press the RESET button to reset. For every hour that the vehicle
idles, it has accumulated the equivalent of approximately 33 miles
(53 km) of driving. Using the combination of the vehicle odometer and
hour meter allows the fleet manager to better determine when the oil
needs to be changed.
Tachometer:
Indicates the engine
speed in revolutions per minute.
Driving with your tachometer
pointer continuously at the top of
the scale may damage the engine.
2008 Town Car
(tow)
Owners Guide (post-2002-fmt)
USA
(fus)
Instrument Cluster
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