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View Poll Results: What speed do you have your limit alarm set at?
none - I have it set off
54.13%
65 mph or less
1.83%
70 mph
0
0%
75 mph
3.67%
80 mph
7.34%
85 mph
11.93%
90 mph
8.26%
95 mph
2.75%
100 mph
5.50%
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 04:30 PM
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If you are like me... I keep raising it since is seems to go off too often. I can't believe how easy it is to go 100+ with no effort.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 04:34 PM
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Best deal I have found is to turn it off and drive like I feel with V1 protection.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 04:43 PM
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I have never set it on my e39 and expect that I never will on my e60. I feel no need to limit my speed.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by RedSoxFan' date='Nov 2 2005, 08:30 PM
If you are like me... I keep raising it since is seems to go off too often.? I can't believe how easy it is to go 100+ with no effort.
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I never set it; it might wake me up.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 07:34 PM
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Probably an easy question to answer, but I'm lazy to look at the manual

How do you set/turn off the speed limit alarm? When I bought the car it was set at 55mph. Although it doesn't bother me too much (my wife likes the chime), I would like to set it higher or maybe turn it off

Thanks.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 07:42 PM
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Mine used to be @ 135km/hr then 140km/hr for cruising speed, but the traffic on most of our roads rarely allow constant cruising so the thing was going off every time I rebuilt speed.

Hence now it is off!
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by JDN' date='Nov 2 2005, 06:34 PM
Best deal I have found is to turn it off and drive like I feel with V1 protection.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 08:13 PM
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I used to have it set at 80 mph a long time ago but found it going off all the time so I bumped it up to 90. It still goes off but not nearly as often. I think between 80 - 90 mph is normal cruising speed for me. I tend not to go faster unless the road is more open which would allow me to do so
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 08:55 PM
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When I first got the car, it was pre-set on 110 km/hr and the first time it went off I jumped and then giggled like a schoolgirl. My wife, who was in the car with me at the time, reckons its the only time I've been happy with being told to slow down.

That was then, this is now and the damn thing stays OFF.
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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by RedSoxFan' date='Nov 2 2005, 05:30 PM
If you are like me... I keep raising it since is seems to go off too often.? I can't believe how easy it is to go 100+ with no effort.
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figured only a red sox fan to keep track of their speed limit

errr what??? speed limit alarm -= yeh right :thumbsdown:
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