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I have just purchased new tires for my car.
I put on 205/50/15 to replace stock 195/65(60?)/15s.
With my wife driving her minivan in front of me, it appears that I have lost 10%
speed. I now have to go 120 to do 110. I love the tires and don't want to part with them! I can easily do the math in my head while driving, or I could set up a gps on my dash. But I would like to know how to recalibrate my speedo??
Any ideas?? There must be a way. I don't want to go with bigger rims this time.
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the way i could think of is the same way you recalibrate after painting your needles and that while being paced put in the needles at the correct speed. its too risky i think to do that, you might as well just leave it how it is. its possible to screw it up even more.

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hell mines pretty f'ed up as it is, i need to still work on mine.

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You can get you speedo recalibrated. Mine was reading in kmh when i got it from japan. I brought it to a guy who apesialises in recalibration and corrected it to read mph. Be very careful, do not get a cowboy to do this or he could permanantly fuck up your gauge cluster. Cost me E50.

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hard to imagine you're showing a 10% difference. it should only be around a 3-4% difference.

also you're not losing speed lol the gauges are just telling you are faster then you think. I personally would leave it be. unless you find someone you trust to do the work.


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After I painted my needels my speedo's been of by about 10km/h. It doesn't really bother me tho... I don't look at it when I drive anyways!!! grin

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why the hell did you go from 50 to 65s?


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I did not go from 50 to 65. The other way around 65 to 50.
First set of low-pro's. Dealer said they cant do it but you know dealers!?!?
So far I have been able to deal with it. did 120 all the way home tonight. I was hoping for a computer /ecu quick fix.

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my bad lol
you should just get new rims, those must look really tiny
you want to keep the wheel/tire ratio in balance with what stock was like.


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The wheels do look a little smaller, more room in the tire-well. But it it something new to look at. There are so many types of rims out there I would not know where to start.

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