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Re: [Shotimes] Speedo Error... was: My MPG Test is Working!!

To: van Oss <vanOss@centurytel.net>, shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Speedo Error... was: My MPG Test is Working!!
From: G Kerby Haltom <g.kerby@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:35:41 -0700 (PDT)
GPS is very helpful for this.  My SHO is dead on, at least within the needle's 
width.  The BMW is optomistic by 3 - 5 MPH.  The odometer on the BMWis dead on, 
so they did the speedo error on purpose...

And George, we're only giving you a hard time because, well, you're you!  And 
we enjoy it, and expect the back from you later...

Kerby

van Oss <vanOss@centurytel.net> wrote: It sounds as though speedo inaccuracy is 
the helpful factor in your 
experiment, George.  In a sense you've corrected an error in the car.  That 
by itself would be a postive step.

I've confirmed several times in my 92 SHO that the speedo UNDERstates actual 
speed by exactly 2 MPH.  I've noticed the speedo on our Crown Vic OVERstates 
actual speed a lot.  The last time my wife followed me on the Interstate, 
she in the Vic and I in the SHO, she really gave me the dickens, thinking 
we'd been doing 85 MPH in a 70.  We'd been doing exactly 75 -- I'd confirmed 
that using the stopwatch function in the dash clock, 10 miles in 8:00 
minutes.  My speedo had been showing 73 MPH.

VO

----- Original Message ----- 
The speedo conveniently read about 4.5 miles fast from the factory....Lexus 
has the largest intentional speedometer error in its class, according to 
something I read in CU or CR a few years ago.... 
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