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[F1 9LFG]

I just need to be able to pass Hgvs a bit easier, also joining motorways is a PITA and, in my opinion, dangerous

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm sure it's a PITA but at the end of the day it's not your van and Kevin's point about the insurance is a good one IMO. 

[slowboy]

get stealer to reset on service

[F1 9LFG]

get stealer to reset on service

Could do but it would be very obvious that I'd tampered with it!

Putting a larger tyre on would be easier to get round if questioned but that's assuming it would give me a few extra mph - which I'm yet to verify.

Cheers

[05omegav6]

get stealer to reset on service

Could do but it would be very obvious that I'd tampered with it!

Putting a larger tyre on would be easier to get round if questioned but that's assuming it would give me a few extra mph - which I'm yet to verify.

Cheers

It won't. The limiter will receive the signal from both the engine Ecu and the ABS one

 If you try changing down at the limit, the only difference is the rpm. Changing the tyres is unlikely to be significant enough unless you change them drastically which will potentially cause issues with insurance and tyre loadings

[martin42]

another thing you may not know about is if a gps tracker unit is fitted which records your speed

[05omegav6]

If nowt else just imagine how the truck drivers feel in their 700+bhp trucks being stuck at 56 mph when they could easily be knocking on a ton

It is probably quite difficult to buy a new van without, especially if the firm has obtained them through a leasing company

[Taxi_Driver]

I was chatting to a coach driver today.....he reckons he can quite easily go faster than the 65mph his coach is limited to.....his way round it...

When you hit the limit.....and you have to do this quite quickly....dip the clutch....rev the engine hard and let the clutch out quick....he reckoned with gained momentum you can get it to go faster if you keep doing this......he reckoned he'd once got his coach to go 90mph.....but he did say he was going downhill at the time..

Not sure what the clutch would make of this 

[05omegav6]

Heading up the M40 where it drops into Oxford Vale, it is possible to hit 80 in a loaded truck

The limiter can only shut off air/fuel but can do nothing to gravity or gearing

First time I was nearly at Oxford services before I realised what the digital tacho meant by 'overspeed'

Always suprised by what tests don't teach you

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I wish the d..k head in the mini truck behind me today had been fitted with a limiter to match his absence of intelligence.

I was doing 80 mph on the M25. leaving a large gap between me and the heavy traffic in front of me doing the same speed, and there was him.............6 feet from my rear bumper!!

Christ, where do these people come from?  Showed my brake lights fleetingly three times, whilst keeping my foot on the accelerator, as a warning, but he stayed where he was.  Anyway, once a clear gap opened up in front of me...........zoom.........I left him 'standing'.

 

[omega3000]

I wish the d..k head in the mini truck behind me today had been fitted with a limiter to match his absence of intelligence.

I was doing 80 mph on the M25. leaving a large gap between me and the heavy traffic in front of me doing the same speed, and there was him.............6 feet from my rear bumper!!

Christ, where do these people come from?  Showed my brake lights fleetingly three times, whilst keeping my foot on the accelerator, as a warning, but he stayed where he was.  Anyway, once a clear gap opened up in front of me...........zoom.........I left him 'standing'.

 

Bet he thought you were flashing him from the rear lizzie and trying to get you to pull over for you number 

[Vamps]

Also bear in mind that the company may well have got discounts on their insurance by limiting their vans. If you tamper with it, you could find yourself uninsured in the event of an accident.

But if upped the tyre size to a size that is standard on other kangoos I could always play dumb?

Are you that desperate that you are prepared to buy 4 new wheels and tyres?..............

[F1 9LFG]

Also bear in mind that the company may well have got discounts on their insurance by limiting their vans. If you tamper with it, you could find yourself uninsured in the event of an accident.

But if upped the tyre size to a size that is standard on other kangoos I could always play dumb?

Are you that desperate that you are prepared to buy 4 new wheels and tyres?..............

I'd get the bigger tyres fitted at service, I wouldn't be paying out for them!

Not looking like it'll work anyway...

[Iain]

Trucks are limited to 56mph and your saying the van is limited to 62mph,which is coach speed,and your struggling to get past the trucks???

Somethings wrong somewhere,if your limiter is set at 62mph then you should be passing truck easily.

[F1 9LFG]

Trucks are limited to 56mph and your saying the van is limited to 62mph,which is coach speed,and your struggling to get past the trucks???

Somethings wrong somewhere,if your limiter is set at 62mph then you should be passing truck easily.

Hgvs and articulated lorries are limited to 60mph on UK motorways, I struggle to pass as I'm also limited to the same speeds.