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And in reality, how often does, say, a warranty situation happen just as a vehicle is about to leave warranty....??
'Ere's whatcha do, Guvna', just throw a couple dookie logs in the hearth and bob's your uncle!
I passed through Kamloops some time back, and I think it has the coolest name for a city with a close second going to Medicine Hat.
You know, if they just calibrated them right from the factory, this discussion wouldn't even be necessary, let alone a lawsuit.
And if your odometer reads high, you're actually getting worse gas mileage than your'd be figuring.
It can be calibrated to a specific speed. Heres a PDF file that explains it on Smiths speedos. The CB speedos use the same principals as the Smiths' Look for SPEEDOMETER calibration, about at the middle of the file.http://mywebpages.comcast.net/rhodes/speedo.pdf#search=%22recalibrating%20speedometers%22Daniel
Excellent article. I've saved it for future use.
Quote from: Pinhead on September 15, 2006, 11:53:09 AMAnd if your odometer reads high, you're actually getting worse gas mileage than your'd be figuring.But that's just it. The odometer should be fairly accurate (with a fresh front tire of correct size). It is directly driven off the cable drive. The speedo needle is magnetically driven.
Quote from: MikeDeB on September 16, 2006, 06:34:26 AMQuote from: Pinhead on September 15, 2006, 11:53:09 AMAnd if your odometer reads high, you're actually getting worse gas mileage than your'd be figuring.But that's just it. The odometer should be fairly accurate (with a fresh front tire of correct size). It is directly driven off the cable drive. The speedo needle is magnetically driven.But only if the OEM calibrates the speedo exactly for the 'stock' size tyre, with no bias. As we have found out, they do fiddle with the calibtration, deliberately, so that the instrument is optimistic.
He's talking about the odometer, you're talking about the speedometer. Two completely different systems as far as calibration goes. It's possible for the odometer to be giving a near exact measurement of distance at the same time that the speedo is reading 20% off of actual speed.
Probably just to cover their own asses.I haven't tested the guages on my current bikes, but on the 400F I had back in Texas, the odometer was almost dead on, while the speedometer registered about 8% over actual speed.
