Car speedos which make you giggle
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My mini, Clio, and alpina have all been off the clock. Mini reads to 90 (went round to 10 on the other side, hot 1310 motors will do that. Worked it out as 117 mph. Spat the head gasket out, but was fun. Joys of a silly race engine in a road car.)
Clio clock goes to 160 (showed around 172 area), alpina says 155. Suffice to say it surpassed that.
Naturally optimistic on the clocks. Good pub banter though, 'yep had the old beast off the clocks today's.
Clio clock goes to 160 (showed around 172 area), alpina says 155. Suffice to say it surpassed that.
Naturally optimistic on the clocks. Good pub banter though, 'yep had the old beast off the clocks today's.
Not quite relevant to the thread but the speedo on the latest Golf can be very misleading.
The gradiations between each 10mph is linear between 0 and 80mph. Then suddenly the scale changes. So on an autobahn once - I thought I was doing about 85mph but in reality I was at 90 mph.
Mike
The gradiations between each 10mph is linear between 0 and 80mph. Then suddenly the scale changes. So on an autobahn once - I thought I was doing about 85mph but in reality I was at 90 mph.
Mike
mike9009 said:
Not quite relevant to the thread but the speedo on the latest Golf can be very misleading.
The gradiations between each 10mph is linear between 0 and 80mph. Then suddenly the scale changes. So on an autobahn once - I thought I was doing about 85mph but in reality I was at 90 mph.
Mike
Dear lord The gradiations between each 10mph is linear between 0 and 80mph. Then suddenly the scale changes. So on an autobahn once - I thought I was doing about 85mph but in reality I was at 90 mph.
Mike
dS!
Dogwatch said:
Manufacturer's standardisation across several models?
This. they aren't going to make a different speedo for the 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 2.0 XRGTI etc to suit the top speed of each.Also if the top of the range model will do 100, the speeod needs to go a bit above that, you wouldn't want to hit top speed then on a downhill find you're bending the needle against the stop (in countries where it would be legal
)Of course, with a digital speedo you could possible have up to 999, although probably it would only be 199 as they'd save money by not putting the extra lines in for the 1st digit.
Urban Sports said:
mike9009 said:
Not quite relevant to the thread but the speedo on the latest Golf can be very misleading.
The gradiations between each 10mph is linear between 0 and 80mph. Then suddenly the scale changes. So on an autobahn once - I thought I was doing about 85mph but in reality I was at 90 mph.
Mike
Dear lord The gradiations between each 10mph is linear between 0 and 80mph. Then suddenly the scale changes. So on an autobahn once - I thought I was doing about 85mph but in reality I was at 90 mph.
Mike
Mike
john2443 said:
Dogwatch said:
Manufacturer's standardisation across several models?
This. they aren't going to make a different speedo for the 1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 2.0 XRGTI etc to suit the top speed of each.Also if the top of the range model will do 100, the speeod needs to go a bit above that, you wouldn't want to hit top speed then on a downhill find you're bending the needle against the stop (in countries where it would be legal
)Of course, with a digital speedo you could possible have up to 999, although probably it would only be 199 as they'd save money by not putting the extra lines in for the 1st digit.
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