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      12-02-2012, 10:44 PM   #1
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speedo off anyone?

anyone else think their speedometer is off? mine seems to be about 5mph higher than the actual speed I'm going according to GPS. any way to check and adjust this?
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anyone else think their speedometer is off? mine seems to be about 5mph higher than the actual speed I'm going according to GPS. any way to check and adjust this?
Yes it is about 3mph high. It is deliberate.

You can change the setting to actual speed via coding.
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anyone else think their speedometer is off? mine seems to be about 5mph higher than the actual speed I'm going according to GPS. any way to check and adjust this?
Yes it is about 3mph high. It is deliberate.

You can change the setting to actual speed via coding.
Thanks! I'll add that to my coding to-do list along with tire pressure numbers and rear drl's.
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Mine seems pretty accurate. We have a lot of those signs that displays your speed here and it has always matched the HUD
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European cars tend to exaggerate speed slightly. Up until the moment you learned that, you thought you were an undefeated speed demon.

Tire pressures and rim size have a negligible effect on speedo readout. The engineers build this cushion in so that even if there are variables out of your control, there's no way you can sue the company for an inaccurate speedometer.

Make sure when swapping for winter that you buy rims and tires with a total rolling radius equal to factory spec.
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Yes, speedos read slightly high because it's illegal for them to read even 1% slow. Switching to a different tire size would definitely affect your readings, but not enough to be important at highway speeds. That really only comes into play if you're on the track gathering telemetry and really want to know your exact speeds, but in that case you'd be getting speeds from GPS anyway. I don't know whether BMW calibrates the speedometer differently depending on whether you ordered 19" or 20", but if not I suspect they calibrate for 20" because in that case switching to 19s means you'll be going slower than the speedo says.
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Yes, speedos read slightly high because it's illegal for them to read even 1% slow. Switching to a different tire size would definitely affect your readings, but not enough to be important at highway speeds. That really only comes into play if you're on the track gathering telemetry and really want to know your exact speeds, but in that case you'd be getting speeds from GPS anyway. I don't know whether BMW calibrates the speedometer differently depending on whether you ordered 19" or 20", but if not I suspect they calibrate for 20" because in that case switching to 19s means you'll be going slower than the speedo says.
makes sense. thanks.
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i thought the car is limited at 155mph, my HUD hit 165mph and then i felt the limiter kicked in. can the calibration be 10mph off at top speeds?
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i thought the car is limited at 155mph, my HUD hit 165mph and then i felt the limiter kicked in. can the calibration be 10mph off at top speeds?
Yes, error margins can be up to 8%, which would be even more than a 10 MPH difference at those speeds.
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I seem to be revisiting old threads as of late....but anyone find a solution to this? I'm not much of a coder...but can't seem to find anything on how to correct this. I have factory 20" rims with factory size tires and my speedo is off 3 to 4 mph according to GPS. More annoying than anything.
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