Hi all, a friend of mine was wondering if he would be able to use a permenantly fixed GPS system for his speedo as its obviously more accurate than anything else but will the SVA bods be ok with that ?
No chance!
What about tunnels or bad weather?
Or the americans switching off GPS
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Originally posted by scotty g
Hi all, a friend of mine was wondering if he would be able to use a permenantly fixed GPS system for his speedo as its obviously more accurate than anything else but will the SVA bods be ok with that ?
GPS speedo needs the car to be moving. SVA speedo test is done with the car stationary although the rear wheels are normally in the rollers.
Some cycle ones don't pass, some certainly have (as you say).
The ones that I've heard of failing don't have any illumination and/or don't read high enough.
They work in exactly the same way as digital dashes and they pass those.
I can quite see why GPS ones might fail, but I can't remember anything in the manual that explicitly forbids them or specifies how speed must be
measured.
thats pretty much what i thought but there's no harm in getting your thoughts too.