Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!wales 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 Lines: 41 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 ARPA: wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!wales