Garmin quotes 0.1km/h accuracy regardless of speed but realistically it's 0.5km/h up to 1598km/h. Should be good enough.

 

Hey Dan, after seeing your Garmin ique 3600 setup in your car I finally got one from GPScentral (thanks for the website). There is about 1-2 km/h discrepancy between the speedo and the ique. At any speed, ique read 1-2 km/h slower than what the speedo says. This also happens in my Sienna as well. Maybe my ique is little bit off?

 

i think that anyone disagreeing or not beleiving what im saying is completely daft. maybe im not talking about your tsx, but i drove my own tsx, the one i own, and marked down its physical characteristics. the way you guys talk is like people that say "well i dont know about that" when im telling you " i know about it and have experienced it".

if i had a ferrari that had a listed top end of 300 km/h and i test drove it, and for some reason it wouldnt pass 140 km/h. i would document the 140 km/h as MY top speed, maybe its defucnctional, but its a real value compared to a virtual one.

in 5th gear, the revs would not pass one solid point, that point was not the redline, it was 6000. who knows the reasoning. ill look into it on my next visit to the dealership.

also on a different note, i had a speeding ticket, 30 over the limit. i got my spedometer tested, 2% off of actual speed. which meant i was thinking that i was going faster than i really was. which should have worked against me in my plead for the ticket to be dropped. but even tho it was more incriminating, i got a "faulty equipment" fine of 150$ instead of a 300$ speeding. and they told me that my warrenty will run out faster than it really should hence the 2% extra KM being recorded on my car. which i am also going to get fixed at the dealer. most spedometers arent exact, but you can have them tested and fixed. i am going to get it cahnged so taht im not getting ripped off of extra kilometers that were never driven

-TSX Cman

 

Then you should have written your title as "Topped out MY TSX speed".

Something is wrong with your TSX.

 

With the taller gears, don't you think the 5AT would have a higher top speed than the 6MT? I don't even have to shift into 3rd until about 75 mph in SS mode.

 

I don't think 5 AT would have a higher top speed than a 6 MT. The reasons are:

1. AT is not as efficient as the MT in delivering power to the wheels.

2. Taller gears = more effort required to turn the wheels.

I think the point at which the driving force by the engine = friction and drag will occur at a lower speed in AT than MT if you take those into account. On the other hand, if there were no forces slowing down the vehicle and both AT and MT can reach 7100RPM in their 5th and 6th gear respectively, then I guess AT would win due to the taller gear. That's my hypothesis.

 

I've gone 115 in my 2000 Ford Escort. I didn't top it off. I got scared and slowed down. That's not very responsible!

 

 

Only in a vacuum.

 

Little over 130 MPH...my girlfriend got scared so slowed down. Come to think of it...I think I was scare too. I wonder what it feels like going in 150 MPH...damn...that is some scary shit.

 

i got a negative rep point for this post, show yourself fool

 

Anonymous negative rep is

Maybe they didn't like the fact you drove a vette (or exceeded the speed limit).

 

prolly, oh hey jlukja u might get a warning from the same guy i did! he warned me of another negative rep for useless posting... send one jlukja if u gonna send one to me buddy. But anyways the Vette was amazing, u could feel a lot of air/wind driving at those speeds, but lots of fun none the less.

 

I got anonymous negative rep on another thread today. Got anonymous positive rep for my chickens#!t pic though. Anyway, if this person is going to give negative rep for useless posting then they're gonna be really busy on this board cause there is a LOT of worthless posting here. So what. Life's too short to worry about rep.

I've had my TSX up to 95mph and it was smooooooooth. The fastest I've gone was around 115 in my old IROC-Z. The wind noise was deafening. At that speed air rushing past the windows caused negative pressure and sucked the windows out and away from the seals. Don't know the speed exactly as the speedo only went to 85 (and pegged at 90) so I had to interpolate using the tach.

 

all i can say is, don't speed w/o a radar detector.....

ps, i hit 110mph 'briefly'

 

how do you get the navi to show your current speed?

i heard it can do this....is that true??


ps....had the TSX up to 90mph....dont really want to push her til she gets more miles on her

had a 98 honda accord 4Cyl. up to 125mph and she had nothing left.....

fastest i have ever gone is 140mph in an M3

GOD i love M3's.....

 

damn man, i thought i was a rebel when i hit 90 ripping apart an avalanch....yeah stupid guy was pissing me off. but man it was still pulling i only backed off cuz i was entering a speed trap and the limit was somehwere aroudn 60. but damn the tsx still has great handling at 90 95, hmmm gotta find a good place to hit the top speed, im tempted on the highway but im thinkin ill hit an oval track sometime in the future.

 

anyone in LA willing to take their car to big track willow springs to test it out?

 

I hit 110mph in 4th gear. I didn't even realize I was at redline, my friend had to tell me, but that's before I had my CAI, things should be different now. Thing is, I couldn't even notice I was driving 110mph.

 

how do you get the navi to show your current speed?

i heard it can do this....is that true??

 

Look this up in other threads for specific what-buttons-to-push info but here's the gist:

Put your Navi in diag mode, enter the GPS area and push and hold the Info button. You'll get to a screen with a real-time update of speed.

 

that is cool!!! For the last 2 months, I've been regretting not getting the NAVI, it just looks so much cooler!

 

I've never driven over 160 km/h (100 mph)! Yet.

 

I personally hit 140 in my Tsx
and 130 in my 01 accord e x

 

I've had my TSX up around 90-95. It was practically gliding along - didn't feel overstressed at all.

 

i hit roughly about 120 on the LIE ........ it gets scarey at those speeds cuz u feel the wind pushing and the car starts swaying, i was kinda amazed dont plan on doin too many stupid things like that often just wanted to test her out !

 

Yes man, lol, top speed i hit was 124 in the HOV Lane on the LIE. good time

 

i really liek goin fast in the TSX, feels good and controlled in my oppinion.
you definately have to concentrate real hard. moving twice as fast as people on a highway!

 

Wow 124 on LIE?? I've seen a porsche go blasting down it last time I was over there. Personally I've never been past 87 MPH on my TSX. It's not that I don't want to speed, but I've never really had a chance to? Down on campus there's this really long stretch of barren roads (looks like that scene in texas chainsaw mass.) I wanted to topspeed my TSX, but my girlfriend said no...

 

I have hit 144 on a couple occaisions, and my car is not modified besides an intake and a a sway bar. Fuck Car & Driver and their 133 "drag limited" statement. They also said that the TSX runs anywhere between 15.6 and 15.9 in the 1/4 (when I put 15.4 on it consistently when it was stock.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one to say that!

 

tell it like it is kurt