Well, it was an idiotic report, and an idiotic thought on your part that a mechanical cable connection somehow "drops out" between one end and the other - and equally idiotic to think that an electronic sensor would do the same. It's not just resistance in the cable, Shaz, it doesn't work that way...
Longer cables on some devices can lose accuracy with length, it was a logical approach which someone corrected and everyone decided to jump on and be all knowing and condescending.
i'd drop this arguement, you just aren't going to win, because your point is flawed. As you've pointed out yourself.
angle of tortional[sp?] stress within modulus of eleasticity? (can someone email me if those words actually mean something????) edit: ps jon, yer double posting. It's kinda like telling some guy in a club to pull up his pants. You don't really feel like mentioning it but it's important they know.
well now im unsure as to whether my car is monumentally fast or slow.. driving along the motorway at 60 sat nav saying like 50 but the other day my speedo (on a private road) went off the speedo up to 130?? does this mean my 1.8 8v was going 140mph? btw i was eating a sarnie and texting my mum at the time as it felt a steady 40.... so is the sat nav right or my speedo? and why does speedo under read then over read?
sat nav will be more accurate, theres to many variables with the car speedo system, the difference between a new set of tyres and an old set can have 15mm difference in diameter alone, giving a difference in your speedo reading.
Pretty sure the mk2 VR6 can crack sub 7 secs easily, but want to get it timed. When I do might borrow some light rims and remove the rear cage.
new tyres tend to have about 7-8mm of tread when new (roughly), if you replace them when they're just legal, 2mm of tread for example thats 5-6mm of tread depth difference in radius, so 10-12mm change in diameter
DOH! You're right, I didn't read the post properly, I was thinking 15mm of tread Apologies to gunit 84
