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From: rcd@opus.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Speeding?
Message-ID: <301@opus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Mar-84 00:06:46 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 31 00:06:46 1984
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> I was stopped once when the speedometer said I was going 55.
> My wife would confirm it, because she looked at it just before
> he hit his lights.  It turned out that my speedometer was off
> by 17 mph ( I had it checked ) when it said 55.  I believe it
> was because of the tires that I had on it and it was old,
> 12 years with 150K+ miles.

I might buy that the speedo was on its last legs, tho the way they work
that's a lot of error (30%).  Still, they're supposed to die at 100K.
But it certainly isn't the tires being worn!  First, as tires wear the
speedo will read higher, not lower (because for the same reading you're
traveling less distance).  But second, the total change in wearing out
normal tread is substantially less than 5%.
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