Originally Posted by alanh

Reminds me of something -- once I rented a car where the electronic dash was set to metric for some reason (this was in the US). I dug out the manual (which surprisingly was in the car) and switched it back to imperial measurements. This really confused Hertz, as it appeared the car had fewer "miles" than when it was checked out. They had me guestimate the mileage and added that to the original km figure.