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Originally Posted by jpapg
This is a known issue for all cars and motorcycles from all companies.
The speedometer always overestimates your speed. I think it's a safety measure. Futhermore you must take into account that speed limits in some countries are very strict, so the car shows a little bit increased speed, just to ensure compliance with speed limits for the driver.
Let's say that the current speed limit is 100km/h. If I set my cruise speed to 100 km/h, Im absolutely sure that I will never violate the limit, since the actual speed of the car is less than 100 km/h. So no speed camera will ever catch me.  |
My girlfriend's Infinit EX35 is always exact, so was my Corvette, so this cannot be an issue with all cars from all companies.
The automobile has been around for 100+ years, we can send a man to the moon and study new rings around the planet Saturn now. So most certainly there must be a way for human beings to calibrate a speedometer correctly.
I don't much care what BMW sets as the acceptable parameter (+/- 10%). It's what's acceptable to me since I'm making the PAYMENTS. It may come down to how bad one decides to complain about it to the service dept, to get it fixed.