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Speedometer discrepancy 200 1986

posted by  chris in calgary on  Fri Feb 8 12:27 CST 2008
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Speedometers are seldom very accurate. I have a chuckle sometimes about the people obsessing about tire size differences and speedo accuracy. Most read faster than actual speed to some degree. I rented a new Jetta last month, speedo was almost 10% optimistic. GPS is the easiest way to check, although you can be quite accurate with mile markers and a watch/stopwatch.

Also, odometer readings are not always directly related to the speedo. One could be more accurate than the other. The odometer on the Jetta (above) was pretty much right on.

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67 144, 86 740T, 91 945SE, BMW R69S, R60/2






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