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Can you use the vag to re-calibrate the speedo for different size wheels?

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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:01 PM
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Can you use the vag to re-calibrate the speedo for different size wheels?
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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:10 PM
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I've looked high and low for this... big goose egg over here.
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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:14 PM
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Default If you could do that you could "calibrate" it to add no or less mileage...

I'm sure the DOT would have a major problem with adjustments like that.
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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:18 PM
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Default yah, but you have incorrect mileage when you have different diameter tires.

So DOT must require a way to calibrate....
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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:20 PM
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Default true, but they could have %limitaions on it. You could just as easily get oversized tires right now

which would make you drive further than your odometer actually shows. If it was adjustable within the settings of what possible tires could reasonably fit on the car, it'd be cool. Of course, then I guess that opens up the window to hacking those %. As I recall, right now there is a one-time resetting of the odometer, but not something you can do through the VAG alone. It does not appear that anyone has hacked that, so I don't see why they couldn't do the above while feeling no differently about security risks. Probably just amounts to the fact that there's no major need for the function. You just put the damn right size tires on that Audi tells you and that's the end of the story! )
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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:34 PM
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Was is a MB that had that function easily accessible?
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Old Oct 22, 2001 | 03:57 PM
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yep, just type in the size and whether they're new or used
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