Canadian Version of the Marauder

[Ambitious1]

From what I've learned the gauge pod by the floor shift has a slightly different appearance for Canadian vs us cars...

Does anyone have a pic of what the gauge pod in the Canadian cars looked like? I would be interested in knowing what the differences are.

[MERCURY 2003LSE]

Does anyone have a pic of what the gauge pod in the Canadian cars looked like? I would be interested in knowing what the differences are.

I have seen US cars gauge pod and they look the same to me .
They look identical to me , no different part numbers from Ford .

[MGDriver]

They are definitely different, one of my Marauder friends here in Germany has a Canadian one so we have compared them in detail. Instead of actually reading OIL and VOLTS, the Canadian gauge pods have an image of a battery and an oil can. This was done because if you put any text in a Canadian car it has to be billingual English/French and since there wasn't any space for that in the gauge pods they went with images instead.

[MERCURY 2003LSE]

They are definitely different, one of my Marauder friends here in Germany has a Canadian one so we have compared them in detail. Instead of actually reading OIL and VOLTS, the Canadian gauge pods have an image of a battery and an oil can. This was done because if you put any text in a Canadian car it has to be billingual English/French and since there wasn't any space for that in the gauge pods they went with images instead.

All the dummy lights / radio etc have oil volts everything in English only ,
I do not think there is any difference in the gauge pod but I can not say for sure because my car is in winter storage until the end of May

[MGDriver]

Unless the gauge pods in my friends car are not original I'm sure that the Canadian version has images and the American version has text.

Unfortunately we didn't take any side by side interior pictures and I couldn't find any online so could anyone confirm this for us?

[maraudernorth]

My gauges are original and i have the gravy boat and the battery for markings

[FMCI]

Here's a pic of my 2003 Canadian spec gauge pod.

[WPG_Merc]

Hers a pic of my Canadian spec gauge pod. Sorry I couldn't post the picture right to the forum but I'm having a brain fart on how to go about that..
https://instagram.com/p/BRygh2CFUs7/

^^^ I have that too.

I think also for the 470 MMs,Mercury Dealers in Canada had only 3 to 5 MMs on the lots in 03 & 04 for sale for $37 Gs CDN.

[Sask_Mrdr]

Interesting... my cdn version has the gravy boat and the volts script.

[MGDriver]

That's what I was talking about and I'm pretty sure that the gravy boat and battery symbol was the Canadian standard so if you have a scripted gauge I guess it must have been replaced at one point.

[Sask_Mrdr]

That's what I was talking about and I'm pretty sure that the gravy boat and battery symbol was the Canadian standard so if you have a scripted gauge I guess it must have been replaced at one point.

No the gauge hasn't been changed. I have all the service records.

[MGDriver]

@OP: Did you ever get your Marti Report and were you able to get some more info about the Canadian models from it?

Would be interesting if those 471 could be broken down into colour, year and 300A/B model.

I've read elsewhere on this forum that they brake down into 346 for 2003 and 125 for 2004 but not sure if that's true.

[hotford]

Well I have a 2003, Canadian model, number sequence i don't know or care....
it does have Traction control button, trunk and gas cap power release, map pockets in the seats,mini spare,and the gauges do show an oil sign as well as a battery sign in the gauge pod.
BTW the window sticker I have from the original owner shows MSRP at just over 48K
and he purchased it for 43K that what the bill of sale shows from the dealer.