The inaccuracy of the speedometers used by most vehicles, even those in cars with the coolest gauge clusters, is well known. The good news is that most speedometers report speeds higher than the ...
Do you even look to see if the speedometer works when you buy an old car? When we shop for something built in the 1960s or 1970s, we assume the speedo needle winged off into the night or the cable is ...
Modern cars surround drivers with digital certainty, yet one of the most basic numbers on the dashboard is quietly biased in ...
I drive a SsangYong Musso, and the speedometer consistently reads a few miles per hour above my satnav. I have always believed that the satnav would be the most accurate and reliable, but I recently ...
It happens quite often; we see many street machines with the most aesthetically appealing gauges, only to find out the speedometer is far from functioning. Some will rationalize that it’s unnecessary ...
Driving with a broken speedometer in your muscle car has sadly fallen out of fashion. As a tech in the '90s, I'd see vehicles with carefully crafted cheat sheets taped to the dashboard calculating rpm ...
Back in high school, my best friend managed to get the speedometer needle in his mom’s 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier— we called it the “Lier-Jet”—so far past the end of the scale that it twisted all the way ...
Q:I operate two vehicles with two different aftermarket GPS systems, each gives me conflicting speed readings in relation to the vehicles' speedometers. Which is more reliable, the factory installed ...