Hi Goran,
I'm sure it can be removed. Some evidence here:
http://www.impconcepts.com/vwpassatb...ugeforsale.htm
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...in-the-cluster
http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...l-Color-Change
l'm just curious, but why would you want to stay with km? Re-coding back and forth from km to miles and miles to km is not a problem and is standard supported feature of the cluster. Same applies to language.