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Originally Posted by aculeg87
Saw 167 on the HUD then fuel cutoff. I hear speedo is off and you're only hitting 155. The other day I saw 124 and checked my phone with a GPS app and it said max speed was 118. Who knows?
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Remember the speedo is purposely inaccurate... something like this:
Displayed = actual * 1.05 +3/-0
the reason for this is safety and so BMW is not considered culpable in speed related cases ("Officer my car said i was going XXX"). BMW can reasonably assert that at all times the car is going slower than displayed.
Use GPS/Waze/Trapster/etc for a real number.