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JulianRoss said..FormulaNova said..JulianRoss said..FormulaNova said..
Really? I know on commodores I have owned in the past, each increment seemed to be 1.6kms, obviously based on something from the USA, but other cars I have noticed that they had increments of 2kms.
1.6 Km is one mile...
So USA based cars might have done a lazy conversion?
Yes, sorry, I didn't spell it out, but my assumption at the time was that it was a unit that was calibrated in miles. It makes sense as a lot of stuff is just used as is from the US and then only the things that are changed are the bits the user sees.
Ha ha
yep as a determined key board warrior I just need to be right every so often..... even when stating the obvious
Wouldn't it be easier if we just argued? I could come up with some lame argument that it must have been 1.57kms and you could argue it was obviously a mile
I must admit that I was a bit surprised that my ford falcon seemed to have the increment as 2kms, so obviously Ford Australia decided to adjust it. Then again, the commodores I was talking about still had mechanical throttle control, with a separate cruise module, and most or all have electronic throttles now, so the ECU can run the cruise functions.
On two cars I have, I have an ECU edit program, where you can change a lot of parameters, and axle ratio is one of them, which allows you to adjust the speedo accuracy. It was interesting when I changed the diff ratio in one of them and the speedo was telling you you were going much faster than the actual speed, until I changed the ECU setting.
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> 9 months ago, 19 Nov 2019
