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BMW Intentionally Gives Us Inaccurate Speedometers!
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02-16-2006, 07:14 PM | #45 | ||
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02-16-2006, 07:58 PM | #46 | |
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Two reasons for the optimistic speedo. 1. Euro regulations as mentioned in the C&D article. 2. To make us BMW drivers think that we have a more powerful car by making us think we're going faster than we actually are! Can you imagine us doing handheld stopwatch 0-60 times just by looking at the speedo? Wow, 5.6 secs! (according to C&D for the manual 330i).
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02-16-2006, 09:01 PM | #47 | |
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02-16-2006, 09:45 PM | #49 | |
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02-16-2006, 09:46 PM | #50 |
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If I took my ticket to court, I could've brought this up.
"Your honor, the radar might have said 79, but I can prove that the speedometer in my car is wrong, and I was only doing.. 35? " |
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02-16-2006, 09:50 PM | #51 |
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Even our police cars that have "certified calibration" accuracy have a +/- accuracy of 1 mile per hour. Its common knowledge that every car manufacturer makes the speedos read just slightly faster than your actually going.....its all about liability in these sue happy times we live in.
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02-16-2006, 09:53 PM | #52 | |
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02-16-2006, 09:59 PM | #53 | |
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Speed. Now that was a good movie!
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02-16-2006, 11:01 PM | #55 | |
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02-17-2006, 10:53 AM | #56 |
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Remember, the +5% / -0% is a manufacturing tolerance and each car will be somewhere within that range.
A 1mph 'factory' error would beat even that of a certified & calibrated instrument. 5% of the full scale is good for any mechanical gauge, so there is really no problem. There'll be worse accuracy for sure on your fuel gauge, temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, cabin temp settings, battery voltage gauge, MPG guage, wash/wipe warning light, oil pressure switch, There all gonna be crap accuracy, which is OK for the job in hand. |
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02-17-2006, 11:03 AM | #57 |
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All the talk about safety, accuracy, etc. is moot. The real reason this is done is money! Your odometer works with your speedometer. BMW couldn't care less how fast you're going - but how FAR you're going. By deliberatly setting the speedo to read high they insure that the car reaches the end of its warranty much sooner by reporting more miles than you have actually driven.
This has been discussed before, but do that math and you'll see.
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02-17-2006, 11:20 AM | #58 | |
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02-17-2006, 11:59 AM | #59 | |
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What about the warrantee issue?
I am not upset that they are possibly saving me from a speeding ticket, but I am upset that I bought an extended warranty that will be running out prematurely. I am no math matician(sp?) but I paid a s!#@load of money for the extended warranty and want to get the most out of it! You can bet if my transmission went out or motor seized at 101K I will be knocking on BMW's door! Anyone good with math should figure out the most screwed you could get mileage-wise by the time you hit the 50 and 100K warranty limits.
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02-17-2006, 03:04 PM | #64 | |
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even if deep down they were really doing this for liability reasons and wanted to save some lives and blah blah blah, i think avoiding false advertising law suits should concern them a lot more from economical perspective, don't you think?
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