Are our speedos really that slow?
 

I was driving the other day, and was just seeing what speed each gear topped out in. I noticed that 3rd topped at 96-100 MPH. Kinda hard to actually tell, since I was watching for rush hour traffic, and kids, in a DEF school zone...

Anyways, while on this back road, I could never get the speedo to go above 100 MPH in 3rd. I have seen some people post that the speedo may be slow, by a few MPH, but noone is really for certain. I have also read that 3rd should top at like 105 or so.

Sooo, are they really 5 mph slow on WOT?

You should see what my GPS clocks me at when it says 60. Just be careful with your speed with a car full.

I notice it takes about a full second or two to become accurate.

I might be wrong here and I'm sure someone would jump in and correct me. I don't think it was meant that it was slow in the sense of when you're cruising.
I think what people were saying is that if you WOT accelerate the speedo takes a second or so to "catch up" to the speed you are actually doing.

At the track my speedo says around 95-100 mph, when I get my timeslip it is about 112-113 mph.

Yea there is fairly significant lag when you're WOT.

Try taking the car up to redline in third, shift to 5th and let off the gas during the shift. When I shift at redline in 3rd I'm around 90-95MPH but by the time I put it in 5th the speedo says north of 100-105MPH and I haven't given it any more gas.

Wait, you were going 100 mph in a school zone during rush hour????

:wtf:

about 500ms behind (.5 seconds)

I toppes speedo on the quarter mile @ 106mph in 3rd screaming across the finish. then raised my red line to 7200 so i can still scream across the finish in 3rd now at 110mph with still room for more.

I've also noticed when I redline shift 3rd it's at 100mph, must be the tune!!

lol hahahahah i was thinking the same thing :lol:

Shit yeahhhh...all the cool kids are doing it. Those arent speed bumps, they're speed ramps...blast off bitches...:lol:

Anyways yeah, I figured it had to be slow on WOT, just wondering if the general consensus was seeing the same.

your a fucking idiot.

If you're going to call someone an idiot, at least use proper grammar. You should have said "You're" rather than "your"...


:nono:

Thats pretty much right man.... Mine says the same about 99-100 for 3rd gear....

Hmmm...wow. Apparently I'm the idiot that understands sarcasm. You < common sense. :poke:

whats sarcastic about going 100 mph in a school zone?

when i was at the track i noticed that too..i htought the track thingy was off because my speedo said like 75..but i was trapping 90 lol

I don't own a Speedo so I couldn't tell ya....

:rolleyes: REALLY??? Why would I put I was going 100 MPH in a rush hour traffic, in a school zone for the def, unless I was just making a joke? You know, kind of making fun of some of the tools on here that race in traffic, or do completely idiotic things in their car, that put themselves and others in danger, all for the sake of trying to appear cool. :cool:


Did you read the second paragraph? "While on this back road". Granted I did not clarify that by back road, I meant traffic free, road to nowhere, where there arent any houses, or cars for miles, but in all honesty if you seriously believe I was going 100 MPH in a def, crowded, school zone during rush hour traffic, then by all means dont let me stand in the way of your pure and complete ignorance.


Did I mention that Webster's took the word gullible out of the dictionary?


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