Car speedos which make you giggle
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Nedzilla said:
When we were kids we always argued 'whats the top speed on your dads car speedo'?. Whoever's had the highest number was assumed to be the fastest car,simple as that!
I remembered that old chesnut from school. If only you could fit the clocks from a ferrari to a vauxhall corsa and make it do 200mph 
Mine goes up to 140. Same on the 1.3 model. Hit 100 in that once going downhill, that was a good day. The 1.25 will do an indicated 108ish with a 115 going downhill.
It's funny because it's geared for 125mph so unless you get a new gearbox as well as more power you still wouldn't be able to peak it out.
It's funny because it's geared for 125mph so unless you get a new gearbox as well as more power you still wouldn't be able to peak it out.
Years ago I maxed out my Austin Mini 1.0 HLE downhill on the M62 going to visit a mate at Leeds uni.
Me and my mate who'd come along for the journey were rather surprised to see the needle continue past the last 90 mph mark and eventually work it's way through the 6 o'clock position and back past zero and up to about 10 mph again!
When we go off the motorway at Leeds there was an unpleasant burning smell and the clutch was seriously slipping. After seeing my friend in his diggs and struggling to drive around Leeds, we spent the return journey in the slow lane holding up the trucks on every ascent.
Me and my mate who'd come along for the journey were rather surprised to see the needle continue past the last 90 mph mark and eventually work it's way through the 6 o'clock position and back past zero and up to about 10 mph again!
When we go off the motorway at Leeds there was an unpleasant burning smell and the clutch was seriously slipping. After seeing my friend in his diggs and struggling to drive around Leeds, we spent the return journey in the slow lane holding up the trucks on every ascent.
EvoSlayer said:
Didn't old XR3i speedo's go up to 140, pretty optimistic for 105hp or whatever they were.
So did RSTurbos .. Same dash.. Always made me giggle bending that needle past and into the unknown!I think max speed of a RST was 132? (From memory) so made sense to have 140 (tho soon as you upped the power to overcome its brick like aero you'd easily go off the speedo)
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Edited by StormLoaded on Monday 8th October 09:57
robsco said:
The Tuscan's speedo is interesting shall we say. There's digital and an analogue display. The analogue one is quite possibly the least reliable gauge in a motor vehicle since a Cerbera's rev counter. There are many variables... Sometimes it may read 200mph, sometimes it won't read at all, sometimes it will read on the digital display but not the analogue, others it just never wakes up. Replaced the speedo sensor, and have got another five days out of it before it has started playing silly buggers again. Can't help but giggle. 
The Exige speedo has a habit of forgetting where zero is, especially if you start it with a marginal battery, trouble is the reset procedure means turning the engine off, which you can't really do with a near flat battery, so you have to drive round for a couple of hours mentally knocking 24mph or whatever off the indicated speed.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff