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From: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Fixing speedometer/odometer rate?
Message-ID: <3101@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 13:09:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.3101
Posted: Mon Jan  7 13:09:08 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:40:33 EST
Reply-To: wales@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rich Wales)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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I have a 1984 Honda Accord LX Hatchback.  On a recent highway trip
between Los Angeles and San Francisco, I noticed that the odometer reads
2.8% HIGH.  That is, if I drive an actual distance of 35 miles (based on
highway mile markers), my odometer would incorrectly indicate that I had
driven 36 miles.

The speedometer appears to read "high" by the same amount.  For example,
if I were to drive 60 mph (based on 1 minute elapsed time between mark-
ers spaced 1 mile apart), my speedometer would indicate a speed of just
under 62 mph.

Before you ask -- the tires on the car are radials of the correct size
(in fact, they are the original tires put on the car by Honda), they
were inflated to proper pressure, and the wear is virtually zero since
I have only driven about 6,000 miles so far.

I called the service department of a local Honda dealership, and was
told that inaccuracy of this type is quite common (which does not sur-
prise me) and that they can't do a thing about it.

While I am quite willing to believe that problems of this kind are wide-
spread, I would still like to fix it if possible, because:

(1) Be it vice or virtue, I am by nature a perfectionist.

(2) I would much rather have the dials and meters in my car read right
    than have to waste mental energy applying correction factors in my
    head all the time.

(3) For the sake of warranties, insurance, etc., I would vastly prefer
    not to have the odometer indicate 10,000 miles on the car when in
    fact it has been driven only 9,728 miles.

Is there ANYTHING I can do -- or have someone else do -- that can cor-
rect a speedometer/odometer rate error of this type?
-- 
    Rich Wales
    UCLA Computer Science Department
    3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024 // (213) 825-5683
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