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Jun 2, 2008 | 05:47 PM

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From: sunny suisun

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Originally Posted by Bob A (SD),May 31 2008, 02:52 PM

Honda was sued in a class action for having "skewed" their odometer/speedometers to record mileage at faster rate than actual on Honda and Acura automobiles purchased between April 13, 2002 and November 7, 2006. So finding your speedo reflecting a mph rate higher than a GPS indicates it should on a model from those years is no surprise.

Read the various documents including the final settlement of December 2007 here:
http://www.odosettlementinfo.com/

--Bob

i ran across this class action law suit a while ago when it first came out that is the reason for my concern. also, another reason why i traded my 06 for an 07.

anyway, i ran my car vs. the garmin gps system from my moms car. from the rav4, the gps was dead on the speed. but then again the rav 4 has a needle-type speedometer. when i ran the gps in my s2000, i found that i was running 1 mph faster than the gps's speed when going at least 50mph. at 60-65mph, car was 1-2 mph faster than the gps. i figured a 1-2 mph is acceptable since neither speedometer or the gps is absolute, i figured it was within the limits of marginal error. in other words, i don't think its a big deal to be 1-2 mph off... but that means that civic i was next to had a miscalibrated speedometer. i will be running a test on my sister's civic to confirm this. i'll put the her civic against my speedometer and the gps vs the civic speedometer to shed more light in this situation.

thankyou for the comments guys.