Just a tiny thing I have discovered while playing with Star C3.
Speedometer usually shows faster speed than reality – partly because manufacturers need to fufill requirements of Regulation 39 or similar, partly because it makes the car look faster. I don't like this.
Anyway, until 2006, Australia only required speedometer to be accurate to ± 10 %. And with more or less modern car with electronic speed readout, there is not really a reason not to make it better – there is no mechanical linkage, no wear and tear, no spinny magnetic magic happening inside the dial itself.
If you set your instrument cluster location to Australia (vs. Rest of the world), displayed speed becomes very accurate with no percievable downsides. It may show slightly slower speed than reality (which is a big no-no from R39 standpoint), but as far as I can tell, 100 km/h on the speedometer shows 99–100 on the GPS (vs. like 95 before). So you'll get everywhere a little bit quicker
Speedometer usually shows faster speed than reality – partly because manufacturers need to fufill requirements of Regulation 39 or similar, partly because it makes the car look faster. I don't like this.
Anyway, until 2006, Australia only required speedometer to be accurate to ± 10 %. And with more or less modern car with electronic speed readout, there is not really a reason not to make it better – there is no mechanical linkage, no wear and tear, no spinny magnetic magic happening inside the dial itself.
If you set your instrument cluster location to Australia (vs. Rest of the world), displayed speed becomes very accurate with no percievable downsides. It may show slightly slower speed than reality (which is a big no-no from R39 standpoint), but as far as I can tell, 100 km/h on the speedometer shows 99–100 on the GPS (vs. like 95 before). So you'll get everywhere a little bit quicker
