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    Michael's V8Y62

    Moving away from the Introduction section of the forum here is my thread about my new, to me, car. Pearl, her new name because her paint is Ivory Pearl, is a 2019 Y62 Series 4 Ti with 61k on the clock. I drove her home yesterday and fell in love. Everything is so gentle and effortless. Pearl is quite, comfortable, HUGE (I literally looked down into 200 series Landcruisers and Pearl is standard height), and luxurious.

    I am not going to go crazy with external modifications, she has a bull bar (which I do need living in a rural area where Kangaroos and Wallabies are everywhere and are part of the reason for the demise of my old car) which I will probably fit a winch to eventually but for a few years that will be most likely the limit of visible exterior modifications.

    I will do small bits and pieces to the interior like sheep skin seat covers, I have dogs and I don't want the leather on the seats damaged. I must be in the minority because the fake wood grain doesn't bother me so I won't be covering it up. I will be getting a dash pad cover to make sure the sun doesn't cause problems with the dash top. I will also probably fit some KO Gear modifications that help to make the vehicle slightly more usable.

    There are 2 things I will be concentrating on. In no particular order I'll be tuning the engine with HP Tuners and/or WinOLS as time permits just based on dataloging. The other things I would like to do some research on is the steering, while every make and model is slightly different and it takes a little time to get used to a different car the steering in the Y62 feels to light so I'll be looking at tyre pressures first and then researching other things.

    I'll post some pictures later.
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    EDIT: Posted some pictures today (7/7/23) in post #38
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    Took the family for a drive in Pearl today. Over 3 hours driving around taking my time to get used to driving her. Now I have heard about the inaccuracy of the speedo and to be honest I didn't believe it would be as bad as people have said but it was. Let's just say I'll never get book for speeding with the speedo being out by 6 kmh when it reads 50 and at least 9 when it reads 100. At 109 kmh on the speedo you finally get to 100 kmh actual road speed. The speedo inaccuracy adds 10 minutes to a trip that normally takes me 45 minutes. To combat this I'm considering getting a GPS HUD because I can't see the speed readout on my dash cam in Pearl.

    On a personal note it has been a long time since I have driven a car for more than an hour, or even up to an hour, and not ended the drive with excruciating back and leg pain being barely able to walk after driving. The only other car that I can drive for extended periods is an old VC Commodore, even the VS Commodore Pearl replaced gave me problems and don't get me started on the lack of comfort in the Getz and Troopcarrier.

    In my excitement I forgot to take photos, I will get some soon.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Y62 View Post
    Took the family for a drive in Pearl today. Over 3 hours driving around taking my time to get used to driving her. Now I have heard about the inaccuracy of the speedo and to be honest I didn't believe it would be as bad as people have said but it was. Let's just say I'll never get book for speeding with the speedo being out by 6 kmh when it reads 50 and at least 9 when it reads 100. At 109 kmh on the speedo you finally get to 100 kmh actual road speed. The speedo inaccuracy adds 10 minutes to a trip that normally takes me 45 minutes. To combat this I'm considering getting a GPS HUD because I can't see the speed readout on my dash cam in Pearl.

    On a personal note it has been a long time since I have driven a car for more than an hour, or even up to an hour, and not ended the drive with excruciating back and leg pain being barely able to walk after driving. The only other car that I can drive for extended periods is an old VC Commodore, even the VS Commodore Pearl replaced gave me problems and don't get me started on the lack of comfort in the Getz and Troopcarrier.

    In my excitement I forgot to take photos, I will get some soon.
    Fwiw I'm pretty sure the Australian car standards state vehicles must read a minimum of 6% over the speed they are travelling? I guess Nissan just took the y62 a few percent further?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rusty_nail View Post
    Fwiw I'm pretty sure the Australian car standards state vehicles must read a minimum of 6% over the speed they are travelling? I guess Nissan just took the y62 a few percent further?

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    Can you post up what standard that might be Nicco?

    Personally I find the excessive speedo inaccuracy in this country bloody frustrating. We all know our speedos read way under, then it’s up to us to determine what is actually 100kmh. Get it wrong and bingo you’re paying fines.

    FFS just give us accurate speedos from factory then if we modify the vehicle the fault is ours. Can’t be that hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plasnart View Post
    Can you post up what standard that might be Nicco?

    Personally I find the excessive speedo inaccuracy in this country bloody frustrating. We all know our speedos read way under, then it’s up to us to determine what is actually 100kmh. Get it wrong and bingo you’re paying fines.

    FFS just give us accurate speedos from factory then if we modify the vehicle the fault is ours. Can’t be that hard.
    Adr 18 I believe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Plasnart View Post
    Can you post up what standard that might be Nicco?

    Personally I find the excessive speedo inaccuracy in this country bloody frustrating. We all know our speedos read way under, then it’s up to us to determine what is actually 100kmh. Get it wrong and bingo you’re paying fines.

    FFS just give us accurate speedos from factory then if we modify the vehicle the fault is ours. Can’t be that hard.
    I read it in an RACV mag article recently

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    Quote Originally Posted by rusty_nail View Post
    Fwiw I'm pretty sure the Australian car standards state vehicles must read a minimum of 6% over the speed they are travelling? I guess Nissan just took the y62 a few percent further?
    No it doesn't it states the allowable difference between speedo and road speed + a fudge figure. The formula for ADR 18 (as of 2006) for our vehicles is 0 ≤ (V1 – V2) ≤ 0.1 V2 + 4 km/h. V1 is speedo speed, V2 is actual speed. So 0 ≤ (100 – 91) ≤ 0.1 91 + 4 km/h can be up to 13 kmh (0.1 91 + 4 = 13.1) which is ridiculous (infact teh entire formula is ridiculous as it encourages inaccuracy +4 kmh more which adds even more inaccuracy). We are given 5% leeway on speeding tickets (go higher than 42kmh in a school zone in NSW and you are in trouble) yet we can be going as low as 86.9 kmh when our speedo reads 100 kmh.

    In all honesty I've never owned a vehicle that is more than 5 kmh out and that's why it was so noticable to me and why I'm researching GPS HUDs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Y62 View Post
    No it doesn't it states the allowable difference between speedo and road speed + a fudge figure. The formula for ADR 18 (as of 2006) for our vehicles is 0 ≤ (V1 – V2) ≤ 0.1 V2 + 4 km/h. V1 is speedo speed, V2 is actual speed. So 0 ≤ (100 – 91) ≤ 0.1 91 + 4 km/h can be up to 13 kmh (0.1 91 + 4 = 13.1) which is ridiculous (infact teh entire formula is ridiculous as it encourages inaccuracy +4 kmh more which adds even more inaccuracy). We are given 5% leeway on speeding tickets (go higher than 42kmh in a school zone in NSW and you are in trouble) yet we can be going as low as 86.9 kmh when our speedo reads 100 kmh.

    In all honesty I've never owned a vehicle that is more than 5 kmh out and that's why it was so noticable to me and why I'm researching GPS HUDs.
    Yeah mate I get it, I'm actually driving a new SsangYong ATM and the speedo reads similar to yours so I feel your pain. I just run off the android auto Speedo and it's all gravy

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