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Old 05-27-2011, 07:39 PM   #7 (permalink)
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change your VSS? NO change your actual distance traveled for the same VSS YES. remember your odo does NOT measure distance. it measures "rotations" and then converts that into distance based on assumptions of gearing and tire diameter.

change diameter and those assumptions are wrong.
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