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Old 09-18-2013, 03:40 AM   #4 (permalink)
D.O.G.
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Location: New South Wales, Australia
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Metric - '94 Honda Magna 250
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90 day: 69.83 mpg (US)

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90 day: 35.97 mpg (US)

i30 - '12 Hyundai i30 Elite
90 day: 39.84 mpg (US)

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Originally Posted by cbaber View Post
In my 98 Civic, the speedo is off, yet the odometer is right on the money in factory form. Since I have over sized tires, I have to add 5% distance to my MPG calculations, but it corrected the factory speedometer to GPS indicated speed.

I originally believed that since my speedometer was indicating the GPS speed, my odometer must be accurate. Guess not!
It's not only Hondas, I found similar inaccuracy with my Mazda.

On standard size tyres, the speedo reads fast & the odo reads slow (compared to my GPS).

On the taller tyres I run now, the speedo is correct and I multiply the odo readings by 1.057 when calculating my MPG.
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