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Hi all,

I had to replace my cluster, and now it seems that the speed is wrong, I seem to be traveling slower at "60 " than the rest of the traffic?

Just wondering if the readings can vary between cluster from different models, (Auto/Man, RB20E/DE/DET)

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I would say that the issue is not that the clusters have different ratios, but that the cluster is out of calibration due to age.

Cable driven speedometers operate using a spring and rotating magnetic field, when they get old the spring looses it's tension and hence the speedometer reads higher than your real speed.

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I would say that the issue is not that the clusters have different ratios, but that the cluster is out of calibration due to age.

Cable driven speedometers operate using a spring and rotating magnetic field, when they get old the spring looses it's tension and hence the speedometer reads higher than your real speed.

That is a freakn really good bit of info thanks for that. Is there a easy grub screw or sum thing to adjust in real time wif a GPS to calibrate easy?

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It's not something you can adjust yourself, I believe a specialist shop would replace the spring components with new items.

Makes sense about the auto/manual thing considering they usually have different gear ratios between auto/manual, and the speedo cable is driven from the gearbox output.

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