Does anyone know which 916 models had Farenheit temp gauges fitted as standard and which had Celsius temp gauges fitted as standard. It doen't seem to be country related either as the UK only 916SPS Fogarty Replica was fitted with a Farenheit temp gauge for example!?! see attached image. So which one is fitted to your 916?
In general, Fahrenheit=Yankee, Celcius=European. Your attached image is too low resolution to read the temperature scale, but if the top end is 100ish it's Celcius, or if the top end is 200ish it's Fahrenheit. But the numbers don't really matter. May as well be green/amber/red. If it's in the high side of the gauge you're overheating regardless of the number, or am I missing the point of your question?
Several UK models were delivered with Farenheight temperature gauges. I know for certain at least one 996 did. I have some info somewhere so I'll try and look it out. Andy
My old '98 916BP had a Fahrenheit gauge until I crashed and replaced it with a Celsius one. I seem to remember most bikes at the time in the UK had the F gauge.
My 748SPS which is a genuine UK model has a Fahrenheit gauge, yet a lot of the EU models had Centigrade temperature gauges fitted at the time. I think you will find it is not so cut and dried country specific, Ducati often fitted what they had on the shelf at the time.
As Red says.... it was pretty much hit and miss as to what you ended up with. Centigrade was most popular, but up until around '98/'99 it was luck of the draw.
The problem with Ducati at the time was that they were on the verge of going broke and often didn't have enough parts to build bikes. When the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) took and injected a whole load of cash and management principles, they turned things around and began the road to the company you know today. Back then though you were lucky to get a bike at all! It would have come with whatever part was taken off the shelf at the time, be it C or F, or you may have had a bike from the Euro line and then headlight and speedo changed by the importer in the UK, and maybe the temp gauge if you were lucky!
