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Default BMW on Motorway??

In article ,
FMurtz wrote:
So you start out with a speedo dead accurate with new tyres. Then the
maximum error would be 2%. Not 10% as allowed. Things have moved on
since that reg was written.

They start out never true speed reading,they always read less, except
for police speedos in police vehicles.


In years gone by a speedometer was a precision mechanical device. Making
it accurate expensive. Not so with electronics. Even more so when many
makes have a very consistent error.

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