Hi,
I just got back home from a driving trip from the Sunshine Coast to Sydney and back and I have found that the speedo is wrong in my new car (1 year old).
My wife has no sense of direction, even up and down can confuse her (I hope that she doesn't read that last bit
). She is always complaining about getting lost so I bought her an in car navigation thingy for xmas. On the drive back home I was using it to show her how to use it - getting her to type in addresses to find, listening to the directions etc. when I noticed that it gives the speed of your car as you travel. If I was doing 100 km/h by the speedo the navigator consistently gave our speed as 93 km/h
.
I calculated that at 100 clicks I should do 1 km in 36 seconds (the traffic was really heavy and I had a few hours spare) and using the odometer I confirmed that my speedo had to read about 108 to actually get 100 km/h.
Is this common? I really hate people who travel below the speed limit (I'm not into travelling over the speed limit these days though) and now I find that I have been doing exactly that. It really explains the pissed off people that have been overtaking me lately
.
Has anyone else found this?
If they can make the km travelled correct why can't they make the speedo correct?
Ahh, I have a lot of time to contemplate this and now I feel a bit better. Sorry about the rant.
Adam
