View Full Version : Wow my commute got shorter since I got the CamoBox!


OneBadBox
10-22-2005, 06:02 PM
Seriously though my drive to work has always been over 15 miles, with the CamoBox it's under 15 miles so I borrowed my father's GPS.

I found that over several hundered miles and several days my odometer reads .9681 of actual. Odometer reading of 100 miles = 103.3 actual miles traveled.

The speedometer seems to read about 1 mph high which is kinda nice but opposite of the odometer.

Anyone else checked their numbers? are they similar?

I saw in a fill-up thread that they were off but a search on odometer didn't get me anywhere.

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Scion05BOPxB
10-22-2005, 06:25 PM
haven't checked my odometer, but the police radar stand in the construction area showed 60mph, speedo 57mph.

zereaux
10-22-2005, 07:07 PM
i noticed that too... i think mines backwards tho, speedo showing 60, gps showing 57, damn, i cant remember... i want to say the speedo is faster on mine, yeah, it is... well thats weird... ok, heres a question, who's running on stock rims??? i know before i got the rims, it was a speedo was showing a little faster, now with 17s and 205 tires, its a little closer untl i get past 75...

OneBadBox
10-22-2005, 07:28 PM
I'm on stock wheels/tire.

I wouldn't trust the construction area radar stand, it has an agenda.

zereaux
10-24-2005, 12:01 AM
well, either way, it is only a 3mph difference... guess there shouldnt be that much concern about it...

Max
10-24-2005, 12:50 AM
I find a 3% difference using a couple different GPS. That means at 70 on the speedometer, I am going 68ish.

Stock tires here.

x475aws
10-24-2005, 03:52 PM
I once checked my odometer against the mile markers on the NJ Turnpike, and found it reads around 4.5% low. Stock tires on stock steel wheels. Of course a low odometer is good for us as owners. But it does make your fuel mileage appear lower than it really is.

Seriously though my drive to work has always been over 15 miles, with the CamoBox it's under 15 miles so I borrowed my father's GPS.

I found that over several hundered miles and several days my odometer reads .9681 of actual. Odometer reading of 100 miles = 103.3 actual miles traveled.

The speedometer seems to read about 1 mph high which is kinda nice but opposite of the odometer.

Anyone else checked their numbers? are they similar?

I saw in a fill-up thread that they were off but a search on odometer didn't get me anywhere.

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Newtmaker
10-24-2005, 04:34 PM
Yes, over many long road trips I find my odo off about 4 miles per hundred, low side. The speedo is also about 1 mph higher than actual, as best I have been able to read with a stopwatch. I never trust the police roadside radars. Look what they did to "The Rookie" (joke)

Walt

Bilgewiper
10-25-2005, 05:20 PM
I've done the GPS thing on mine also. I have found the odometer to read slow just like the rest of you. About 4 miles less in 100. And that was on a very straight section of I-5 through N.Ca. so I doubt the GPS was too off. Stock wheels.

koalaty2
10-25-2005, 06:19 PM
I calculated it to be about 4.3% off, but that is about 1.5 mpg at 35mpg, so it is actually 36.5.