GPS speedometer into a Defender Part 2 

Will be driving like the Blues Brothers at night!

Pretty accurate too - spot on 50km/hr when going through the automated speed warnings

Lots of variations of a theme for these - boats, bikes etc

You can do it!

Right on!

Right on

Next time!

Good choice!

I was thinking about the tow truck.

Land Rover = keeping and growing the towing business's since the late 80's in Canada!

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Making a better plastic ring - but now it is fitted I would have to remove it to get the dimensions!

No, I have not followed this up due to lack of interest! Still works - only downside is it takes a while to connect from start up - maybe it is my area and all the trees?

Yes and then they calculate the distance from no signal to new signal

Got it. So they’re actually a bit more sophisticated than you would assume. Great bit of kit. Especially for modified vehicles with ratio/wheel size changes.

Exactly!

No idea

Nope about 2 or 3 seconds

We have a lot of digital speed warnings here and 50 km/hr is spot on, so for me good enough Dash cam is 7 km/hr out @50km/hr

You program the speedo to the old mileage - I wrote the original on the back

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You do not need VDO gauges but Voodoo gauges

@@BritannicaRestorations first I've heard this. My last VooDoo gauge was made in Oz. T , fuel level, gear position, before CAN

No you're right, it has to be seen as working. They don't work in tunnels or over some types of steel bridges either. There's no accommodation for GPS speedo's in the MOT handbook so strictly speaking they're a Major Fail on the UK test

We do not have MoT / inspection here. The only time a vehicles mileage is recorded is when it changes ownership and then if you are not sure, then you can state speedo broken

One of these ought to get a car through an MoT. Regulations-wise, the backlighting must work, and that's about it. However, if you want a plausible odometer reading from test-to-test, then you need a working speedo. The only time an MoT tester would know if the speedo worked, or not, on a test, would be if he took the vehicle out for a Tapley Test on the brakes, and at that point this speedo would be fine. Some "normal" speedos will not work on rolling-roads either, as they are not driven by the ABS-controller output until the average wheel-speed is above a minimum threshold speed, always well above what these rollers are run at for brake-testing. So the biggest challenge would be to carry the original odometer reading over onto the new GPS unit, which it sounds like Mike has found in the instructions.

@@stuartbell7078 That is what I like about this channel. Proper blokes in the comments. Thanks Stuart.

I think I am right in understanding the Discovery 2 as no speedo drive but averages out the 4 x ABS wheel sensors to operate the speedo - this would be interesting to see on a regular rolling road! (Knowing my luck, it would probably put the 3 amigos lights on...)