Re: Speedo accuracy

[Robert Riffel <Robert.Riffel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 23:04:33 +1100
> From: Blake Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Speedo accuracy
> 
	I was thinking the same thing on my way back from lunch just now.  I
was running down I-40 doing what I thought was about 80 mph.  When I got to
our lunch spot, my friends in the minivan behind me asked why I was going so
slow on the highway.  According to their speedo, I was only doing about 70.
It's a shame that the engineers at these companies think that they have to
try to protect us from ourselves.  I have already had my instrument cluster
apart on the RS to switch the fuel and turn signal lenses, maybe I'll do it
again this weekend and take a closer look at the speedo.

	What is this "Yellow Box" of which you speak, Dawgbert?

	Rob
	'00 RS "Bonnie"


> Neil Lindsey wrote:
> 
> > I don't think you're going to find that calibration pot unless you're
> > willing to do some serious disassemby, so why not just invest the approx
> $30
> > in something that is already very accurate
> [...]
> 
> Because it's cheezy? (Ducking and running for cover... :-)
> 
> Seriously, though, for some folks -- like myself -- it just galls me 
> that there's a perfectly good instrument already nicely integrated into 
> my dashboard that could display the correct values. Others, like 
> yourself, prefer to take the more expedient route; more power to you.
> 
> Has anyone tried a Yellow Box?
> 
> - -- 
> Blake "Dawgbert" Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Burlingame, CA, USA
> 
> 

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