VW/Audi
This is going to hurt the bottom line a bit! So wonder how the fix will affect their fuel mileage and used car prices? LINK The Environmental Protection Agency and California issued a notice of v...
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Gary C wrote:gary you need to check the vw's before that comment. I had 3 cabrio's I used as toads and all 3 were dead on with my gps.BenK wrote:
A comment of playing around with the speedometer...nope...don't think so. That is
themost accurate dash gauge in ALL vehicles sold in the USA...as it they were NOT
then contesting speed tickets would hold up...
Actually that's not true and a simple comparison with a GPS will show you that most speedometers read fast by 1-3 mph at 55 mph. I've done it with several vehicles using my GPS, a couple of friend's GPS's, and a couple of Iphones and none have ever shown the vehicle was traveling faster than the speedometer was indicating, they all routinely showed the real speed was slower than the speedometer indicated. There are several reasons for this as mentioned above. One is the manufacturer gets a break on warranty costs by having the speedometer accrue miles faster than reality. The other is so owners aren't getting busted for doing 58 in a 55 mph zone routinely then complaining that their speedometer isn't right. There's no speeding ticket to contest if the vehicle is actually doing 53 when it's indicating 55. You only get in trouble if the error is in the other direction which is one reason they always indicate a little faster than the actual speed. My 2014.5 Toyota Camry is 2 mph slower than indicated at 60 mph, that's pretty normal and it isn't by coincidence.
