Cruise Control Query

[Haybails1980]

I've had my Clio 182 for about 3 weeks now and I'm really enjoying it. I've never had cruise control on a car before and enjoy messing with this on motorways and dual carriageways.

When I set the cruise control the speedo needle does not sit at the same speed, e.g. I have to set the cruise control to 68mph so that the speedo needle sits on 70mph.

Do I have a problem here or is this something I need to get used to?

Cheers!

 

[clio_luke]

mine is the same. think its normal for the speedo to be slightly out mate.
think your cruise control will be accurate

 

[Ross M]

yeah its cause the speedo on cars is always out. the cruise control will be the correct speed.

 

[mark989]

dont worry mine the same lol. 68mph for 70

 

[Rich]

Throw a GPS device in as well and watch all 3 read differently !

 

[bmh.01]

Cruise is somewhat different to the speedo but it isn't the correct speed. 72 on the cruise gives 75 on the speedo and 70 gps verified.

/damn beaten!

 

[Shindig]

mine does exactly the same.
CC set at 38 and the speedo reads 40

 

[sgtbash999]

why does the cruise control only go up to 123mph when the car will go faster than that?

This was tested on a private road ........obviously

 

[Lagerlout]

123mph = 200kmh.

Dunno why. Just one of those things.

Bit like motorbikes being limited to 186mph (300kmh)

 

[-Leigh-]

I have to use a brick on the throttle on mways!!

 

[fUbAr]

why does the cruise control only go up to 123mph when the car will go faster than that?

This was tested on a private road ........obviously

I wondered that too.

Had to manually take over from the cruise control in Germany recently... what use is 123mph to anyone? lol

 

[V1NNY]

lol, How accurate are the sat nav GPS at telling your speed?

 

[-Leigh-]

Pretty damn accurate, as long as you're in the open (no buildings or trees) and travelling along a relatively flat road, not a steep hill.

 

[V1NNY]

if thats the case my pugs speedo is 11mph out at 50 lol

 

[-Leigh-]

I know mine is about 8mph at 100, but 11mph at 50 is a bit excessive lol.

 

[V1NNY]

thought it was pretty funny lol, checked on my tom tom 720 and 530 and 910 lol

 

[Leeshez]

Mine is 2MPH out on Cruise control. I hardly use it.

 

[Ali]

When mine works...70 on the speedo is 65 on cruise read out and 66 on GPS according to my Pioneer HU

 

[Rachel Anne]

I've had my Clio 182 for about 3 weeks now and I'm really enjoying it. I've never had cruise control on a car before and enjoy messing with this on motorways and dual carriageways.

When I set the cruise control the speedo needle does not sit at the same speed, e.g. I have to set the cruise control to 68mph so that the speedo needle sits on 70mph.

Do I have a problem here or is this something I need to get used to?

Cheers!

Wouldn't worry too much! mine does the same! dont think your alone!

 

[Ja5on]

its an analogue digital thing, all the cars have it, dont worry bout it

 

[Richyy182]

Haha the 123 mph bit made me laugh i've never been that speed in mine. I barely hit 70. Cough cough

 

[baz79]

every car in the uk apart from calibrated ones (police) show 2 miles an hour fast..... might be a safety feature so that if you think your doing 35 in a 30 your actually doing 33 but every car does it!!!

 

[Monkey_beast_182]

My old man has one of them Snooper GPS "safety camera" detectors. He has it set so it displays his speed all the time. Sometimes if he looses the signal, it displays zero on his speedo, and then suddenly regain the signal and the speed "jumps". I think the highest he's had it jump to was 320mph! In a Ford Focus TDCi! I was amazed! Lol!

 

[Graham Gooch]

My GPS reads 1mph slower than the digital readout when I set the CC.

The speedo is quite a way out though lol