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petitepoupée
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Joined: November 25th, 2010, 6:02 am
Posts: 125
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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 Re: Show us your speedo. I'm not being critical Jonathan - I would just like to be able to get my speedo closer to the correct reading!
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| December 10th, 2010, 12:28 am |
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Jonathan
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Joined: January 1st, 2009, 7:37 pm
Posts: 4696
Location: Disunited Kingdom
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Re: Show us your speedo. S'ok, didn't even cross me mind  I doubt you'll get the speedo to be accurate, even modern cars aren't absolutely spot-on. 
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| December 10th, 2010, 4:46 pm |
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richardmorris
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Joined: July 9th, 2009, 10:27 am
Posts: 493
Location: Bagshot Park
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Re: Show us your speedo. I tested the 2CV against my GPS the other day, it's surprisingly close. About +1mph showing across the range. indicated 70 was 69 on tomtom.
The C5 is spot on - the speedo is larger though so the dots for the figures are a little larger.
My fiat is about 5mph out at 70.
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| December 10th, 2010, 5:13 pm |
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Nelsthebass
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Joined: October 5th, 2009, 8:22 pm
Posts: 1415
Location: Stone, Staffs
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Re: Show us your speedo. The Beige Beasts speedo is spot on to the GPS reading - 75=75 even with 135's on the rims.
It seems that most modern cars over read the true speed - my Merc over reads by around 3/4mph and her indoors Swift is around 2/3mph out.
I have read somewhere that in Italy they made the speedos deliberately over read as the Italians always like to feel they are going fast!
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Tom Duckpower
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Joined: August 18th, 2009, 10:31 pm
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Location: Berkel-Enschot, Netherlands
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Re: Show us your speedo.  Not WOT, but a slight wind in from behind.. And with the Ami, from my parents house to home, last stage of the trip from Salbris to home:  Translation from top to bottom: Distance, Average speed Max. speed Time Time standing still
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Jacqueslemac
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Joined: February 8th, 2009, 7:56 pm
Posts: 197
Location: Norfolk and Normandy
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Re: Show us your speedo. April 1982:  My first Dyane hits 40,000 on the way home from walking round the Isle of Wight (me, that is, not the Dyane).
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Re: Show us your speedo. I forgot about this thread! This was acheived on my way to Firkin Freezin' in the Ami 
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Nelsthebass
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Joined: October 5th, 2009, 8:22 pm
Posts: 1415
Location: Stone, Staffs
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Re: Show us your speedo. Blast in the BB down to Coventry and back today - out by the M6, back by A5 - what a day, roof off and this was achieved between Tamworth and Lichfield..... 
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| March 27th, 2012, 8:34 pm |
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Mark350
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Joined: February 6th, 2010, 12:22 pm
Posts: 311
Location: Herefordshire
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Re: Show us your speedo. OK, it may not seem much, but given that 100kph on the speedo equates to almost 70mph on the satnav, I thought this was worthy of a post:  picture taken on the M6(N), on the downhill section between Corley Services and J3A
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| April 6th, 2012, 10:22 am |
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banjo
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Joined: June 5th, 2009, 9:17 am
Posts: 747
Location: Staffs & France
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Re: Show us your speedo. I have to say I'm somewhat concerned about the practice of clearly use a mobile phone to take a shot of your speedo.Apart from the offence of using a mobile whilst driving you're in the realms of at least careless driving. I have scraped to many people up after road accidents to condone such things.Come folks lets except that speedos by design read high, also that satnavs can lag behind a little.More to the point lets drive our great cars with a little more common sense please 
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