Artificially high speedo reading on new Audis??

Oldun wrote:
> OK, you've had your fun, now can any of you find me a maker who guarantees
> their cars speedometers are 100% accurate all of the time?

It's not a car, but my Ducati have a 100% accurate speedo. Tested and
veryfied with a GPS.

Cheers,

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'90 BMW 318i '93 Audi 100 2.3E When in doubt, floor it!

OK Oldun, maybe we're just a little too defensive here. I was just asking
you a fricking question. The first thing I wrote in that message was "That
makes sense...." Geez, relax.


"Oldun" > wrote in message
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> OK, you've had your fun, now can any of you find me a maker who guarantees
> their cars speedometers are 100% accurate all of the time?
>
> Maybe it would be wise to search Google before trying to redicule someones
> statement first. Or as they say "engage brain before pressing keys".
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> Oldun
>
>
>

All is forgiven, I did not intend to offend anyone just trying to make a
point.

Oldun

At the risk of myself now being accused of being too defensive, I didn't do
anything that needed to be forgiven. I wasn't messing with you; it was a
serious question about whether the speed board are purposely calibrated to
be inaccurate.


"Oldun" > wrote in message
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> All is forgiven, I did not intend to offend anyone just trying to make a
> point.
>
> Oldun
>
>

In message >
"Anthony R. Gold" > wrote:

> does anyone know whether the DVD drive in the Audi Nav+ RNS-E is
> intended to be able to play DVD movies, or is it only a DVD ROM drive
> for navigation map files and MP3s?

The drive built in to the RNS-E will play normal Audio CDs, data CDs
containing MP3s and will read the navigation DVDs. For anything else
you will need a separate drive.

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Peter Bell (Note Spamtrap - To reply, replace 'invalid' with 'bellfamily')

I don't think those speed board's are particularly accurate. I was once
clocked at 20 mph by one near my parents house - and I was walking! I
mean, I'm a fast walker but not THAT fast.....

My $.02 on this issue is that since the regulations generally state
that a speedo cannot read LOW, the manufacturers tend to calibrate them
to read higher so they don't read low.

Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA

"Anthony R. Gold" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:06:19 GMT, Steve Thompson > wrote:
>
>> I tested the speedo by driving at
>> exactly 60mph between two mile markers and timing the run using a
>> stop-watch; time was within a tenth of 60 seconds. I repeated the test at
>> 70mph and 80 mph. That also gave an accurate result.
>
> My allroad's speedo reads 75mph at 70 and 32 at 30 (as calibrated by GPS).
>
> Tony

My 1.8T quattro reads 75mph at 70mph as well

Those new signs in the UK that say slow down are set below 30mph but I think
they are more of a "speed Aware" device than speed cameras are, I would
prefer to see more of them on the road, people actually make a conscious
effort to slow down then.

"Anthony R. Gold" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:06:19 GMT, Steve Thompson > wrote:
>
> > I tested the speedo by driving at
> > exactly 60mph between two mile markers and timing the run using a
> > stop-watch; time was within a tenth of 60 seconds. I repeated the test
at
> > 70mph and 80 mph. That also gave an accurate result.
>
> My allroad's speedo reads 75mph at 70 and 32 at 30 (as calibrated by GPS).

My TT reads accurately, but starts to drift over about 115mph. At 155mph
indicated, the GPS (accuracy of 1mph) read just over 147mph.

Pretty much on the money.

A stopwatch gives the same results (but at a lower speed - in the UK 100mph
= bye bye license)

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Hairy One Kenobi

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!

Gad-Zoots!! watch a movie whist motoring an Audi. Sounds like an American
feat.

"Anthony R. Gold" > wrote in message
news
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:18:22 +0100, Peter Bell >
> wrote:
>
> > The drive built in to the RNS-E will play normal Audio CDs, data CDs
> > containing MP3s and will read the navigation DVDs. For anything else
> > you will need a separate drive.
>
> Thanks; glad to learn that my system is just limited and not faulty.
>
> Tony

I never look down when flying a Ducati

"BBO" > wrote in message
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> Oldun wrote:
> > OK, you've had your fun, now can any of you find me a maker who
guarantees
> > their cars speedometers are 100% accurate all of the time?
>
> It's not a car, but my Ducati have a 100% accurate speedo. Tested and
> veryfied with a GPS.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> '90 BMW 318i '93 Audi 100 2.3E When in doubt, floor it!