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Car Forum / Jeep / August 2007

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Correcting speedo error

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budman@frozenorth.ca - 28 Aug 2007 15:18 GMT
A GPS is as accurate at calculating your vehicle speed as is a 'certified'
speedo in a police car.  So when the speedometer in my 2006 Liberty was
registering 107 kph when the GPS was showing 120 kph, I mentioned this at my
next service interval.  The mechanic came up with a relatively easy fix.  He
re-programmed the computer to make it think I had different sized tires on the
car.  He got it dead on.  However, the odometer still registers less kilometers
than the GPS records.  I have verified the GPS odometer with the markers along
the highway.

Can anyone confirm that  electronically altering the speedometer reading would
not necessarily change the odometer as well?  

Thanks
SnoMan - 28 Aug 2007 20:54 GMT
>A GPS is as accurate at calculating your vehicle speed as is a 'certified'
>speedo in a police car.  So when the speedometer in my 2006 Liberty was
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>Thanks

Strange, it should correct it too unless speedo gage itself is out of
cal (amount a signal to it need to show desire deflection) and if this
is the case correcting speedo reading via ECM would fix speed and
through odometer off. I suggest you take it back to dealer and have
them restore programing and pull speedo gage and have it checked for
calibration. I had this problem once on a GM truck and speedo itself
was bad.
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