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PILL
09-16-2007, 04:47 PM
Have any of you guys had people who weren't used to your car get confused by your speedo? My mom thought i was driving way slow on a busy street and got kinda ticked off.

Kinda pointless, but just wondering.
04 elantra cvvt
09-16-2007, 11:59 PM
Huh? I don't get the question you are asking. Was she looking at the tach?
PILL
09-17-2007, 01:56 AM
Huh? I don't get the question you are asking. Was she looking at the tach?

No, she was confused by the way the numbers on the speedo are set up. It confused me the first time i looked at it. I can't explain it, but the Elantra speedo just seems a bit confusing if you aren't familiar with it.
Silentwolf
09-17-2007, 02:09 AM
I'm with 04. Ur not making any sense. Or perhaps the fact that we see nothing wrong with the speedo.
2002 GLS
09-17-2007, 10:17 AM
I see nothing wrong with it......
saturn
09-17-2007, 11:10 AM
it uses MPH instead of HOW FAST ON A SCALE OF 1-10
mtlelantra
09-17-2007, 11:13 AM
^^pwnd :)
Munky
09-17-2007, 11:19 AM
Maybe because most domestics (at least the ones I've been in) go from 0-5-15-25-35 and so on...Elantras use 0-10-20-30-40.
jalmir
09-17-2007, 11:24 AM
I seriously fail to see how the speedo is confusing (I'm not taking about my J2 speedo but the many XD/XD2 speedo I see in regular meets)


http://www.elantraxd.com/cotm/march072.jpg

^ you would have to explain me how you can speed and not know it while looking at that cluster!?!? (thx to 04 elantra cvvt for his cluster picture! :) )
SoulReaver
09-17-2007, 11:40 AM
so she thought you were going 5 mph slower than normal???
BobMs_wht2k2
09-17-2007, 11:53 AM
That's because the angle from the passenger seat makes the speedo appear to be about 5mph slower. Not really confusing, just misleading.

If you can't read this speedo, you'll be REALLY confused reading some of the Ford ones.
PILL
09-17-2007, 10:01 PM
Whatever, maybe I'm just crazy. :multiples
04 elantra cvvt
09-18-2007, 01:31 AM
I think the speedo in the XD2 is one of the biggest one's out there. Should be really easy to read.
cclngthr
09-18-2007, 02:28 PM
If you are sitting in the passenger seat, it won't read right. Never has, never will.
BobMs_wht2k2
09-18-2007, 02:32 PM
If you are sitting in the passenger seat, it won't read right. Never has, never will.

Thanks Mr Obvious. Too bad I already said that:

That's because the angle from the passenger seat makes the speedo appear to be about 5mph slower. Not really confusing, just misleading.