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Old 01-25-2011, 10:22 PM
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It is over-reading by design.

German law requires speedo accuracy to be within a certain range, essentially up to a few percent over, but not under at all. Because of production tolerances, and the penalties for under-reading, all of them are designed to read high. It is usually more than 4 km per hour at 100.

It is only the speedometer, the odometer is accurate.
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