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Old Apr 1, 2009 | 07:25 AM
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Speedometer wrong reading

Hi all,
i noticed that my FD speedometer is off by 12 km/h at 140 km/h (reading 140 km/h when accurate gps speed is 128 km/h), which is a 8.5% error, really too much.
Is there a way to fix it and reduce this error to 2-3%?

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Giorgio
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Old Apr 1, 2009 | 09:14 AM
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do you have a non-stock sized tire and or wheel on the car?
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Old Apr 1, 2009 | 11:45 AM
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Might you also have a non-standard rear drive ratio? (Automatics are 3.90, manuals are 4.10, and in the JDM market I think there are some 4.33's floating about)

As well, if you have 100% stock drive ratio and tire size, have a look at whether the speedo sensor might be changed by accident. There is a different speedo sensor for each final drive ratio.
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Old Apr 1, 2009 | 03:04 PM
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Car is stock for what i know. Maybe i can take a look at the speedo sensor tomorrow
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Old Apr 1, 2009 | 04:15 PM
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What tire size?
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Old Apr 1, 2009 | 05:07 PM
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225/50ZR16, it's stock
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Old Apr 3, 2009 | 04:05 PM
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your limited slip or non limited slip diff its whats causing this
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Old Apr 4, 2009 | 11:10 AM
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Hi LoTim,
what do you mean?
LSD is broken? Maybe a fluid change will solve?
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Old Apr 4, 2009 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by zaltec
Hi LoTim,
what do you mean?
LSD is broken? Maybe a fluid change will solve?
No, that's completely unrelated.

This is a tire size / speedometer gear / rear end ratio problem.
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Old Apr 6, 2009 | 03:06 AM
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Is there a way to check the rear end ratio?
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