r/MINI • u/Dependent-Blood6855 • 1d ago

Central speedometer problems r56

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I recently had to remove the shroud over the speedometer in my 2011 R56 to fix an issue with the aux port. While fitting the shroud I must have shaken the speedometer, because the needle dropped below zero. The speedometer still works, but I like it to be at zero. Does anybody know a fix for this?

I also noticed that the central speedometer is way of. When driving at 140 kp/h the speedometer reads in the neighbourhood of 160 kp/h. I have another R56 and it recently drove that one at 160 kp/h and the central speedometer read 165-170. Is this just something you’re lucky with or is there a fix?

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u/ExoticSterby42 R56 1d ago

Forst, parallax error, the instrument is in the centwr and you are reading it from the side. Second, all car speedos over correct about 5km/h as a standard so when it reads for example 130km/h your GPS speed should read below that, about 125-127 km/h depending on your winter tires as well. So the difference can add up especially with winter tires.

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u/Dependent-Blood6855 1d ago

I know the speedo isn’t accurate in comparison with gps. But i’m comparing to the speedo in the tachometer. With two different cars I get different results. I would like to know whats causing that big difference with one car, but not the other.

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u/ExoticSterby42 R56 1d ago

The analog and digital won’t read the exact same values, vastly different kind of readout. Still your analog speedo is a little bit broken since the needle is fallen down below 0 so there is definitely something wrong with it.