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Re: [ST] RE: st-digest V2002 #413



On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, bare wrote:

> Anthony, I checked mine with my GPS and found it to be 10KPH over as
> well...12 KPH over when faster than 160.  I also live in Oz and when I
> complained to the dealer he told me the same thing.  It annoys me is
> that my bike shows 35,000Km on the speedo but possibly only has 31,500
> or so.  Probably sounds stupid but it still annoys me.

Check the mileage against the GPS. I have found that on every
LD trip, I will reset the trip on the emap at the first gas (down
the road from the apartment), each time at the first fill up the emap
is off the trip meter by about 1/10th of a mile.

> I heard once that manufacturers do this with cars so that 'fleets' turn
> their vehicles over quicker.  Just another conspiracy theory..

Yes, I could see GM doing that :-)

Tom


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