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Originally Posted by darcane
If the speedo/odometer is way off, it may indicate the tranny has been swapped (by a previous owner maybe?). HX has higher gearing than the other 6th gen Civics.
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That's what I would have thought too, but the 4th, 5th, and 6th gen all had the same size speedo gears--it seems most likely--and definitely all had VSS that turned about 1,025 rpms to indicate 60mph (even though the 4th gen VSS was cable). I looked into this a lot when I did my 1993 CX transmission swap into my 98 DX. ... However, taller tires will produce an undercount for certain. And it may be an undercount in addition to what seems to be a factory-planned undercount on the odometer, if my GPS tests are correct. Lastly, apparently the 1996-2000 DX *hatch* and the 1996-2000 CX had the same gearing as that generation's HX, while the EX, LX, and DX (coupe) all had shorter gearing than the HX. The EX had the shortest. A lot of cross sub-model standardization going on.