Nissan Speedo

[Boggert]

Are Nissan Speedo's rubbish...?

My Serena's packed up and only worked at about 50%, the milage was fine.

My Terrano's reads 30 MPH when you are only doing 20, I've checked it against my GPS. Its reads 10MPH too fast in all speeds.

I guess its a Nissan Thing. :lol:

 

[Guest]

At least you will not catch yourself speeding :twisted: -rotfl-

 

[Paul]

At least you will not catch yourself speeding :twisted: -rotfl-

-rotfl- -rotfl- -rotfl- Sorry Boggert..
When we got our Maverick the speedo went of fthe clock at 30 mph. 8O

 

[jace]

just wondering how acurate are gps tom tom etc mine reads different to speedo? 9satelites versus nissan i wonder!

 

[Boggert]

At least you will not catch yourself speeding :twisted: -rotfl-

To be fair that was the best reply I coul have got! LOL -rotfl-

 

[Rincewind]

There was a thread on this subject running last year. Apparently Nissan set their speedos at the lowest possible (legal) setting. Somthing like a reduction of 10% plus 3 mph, (which ties in whi my own experience of the speedo showing 70 and the GPS showing 60) although I can't quite remember the exact figures. It apparently gives Nissan a big comfort zone from any possible litigation regarding speeding fines caused by speedo inaccuracies.

If i remember right Shark1e was hoping to have a play with his and possibly produce a workshop on adjusting the speedo closer to the actual road speed, but with the twists and turns of the last 12 months I not surprised that he never got arround to it.

I guess we will just have to live with it, still at least we are not going to get done for speeding.

I am still concearned however if the same deviation affects the mileometer, as even the 10% error puts lot of miles on an older car. I have seen on the net specialist companies who are offereing to calculate and adjust milometers to the correct reading, but even if you did this you would still have to declare it at sale as being non-genuine mileage so it does not seem to be worth while.

Cheers
Rincewind

 

[Jocky]

My speedo reads high. GPS shows speed 10% lower than speedo, so car is clocking up more miles than it is really doing :evil:




:smile:

 

[Deleted Member S]

I think we all are as when i've went through the signs saying how fast you are going at 30mph on speedo the signs said 26mph :roll:

 

[jace]

my mate went through one them flashy 50 signs at over ton when ol bill pulled us i said thought the flashing number was our speed went down like lead balloon!