Maybe you are speeding too much. Try slowing down and see if that works.

 

This is the second worse driving advice I’ve ever encountered.


Here’s the first.

 

Badly calibrated quartz module? Like you, my current car (Subaru) has a very fast running clock. After unattended for several months, it is now running 8 min. faster. But my previous cars (Toyota) had clocks that run fine.

 

Mine is pretty good. Of course clock on my truck is only one that is not adjusted by GPS signal. It is only about a minute off probably in a year.

 

I clock in my car is on the the money it's me that's running late.

 

Try demagnetizing your car

 

have you tried turn it off and on again?

 

We had a Mercedes-Benz GLC300 (employee lease) and it NEVER kept the correct time! NEVER! I don't know where or how it got it's signal but the time would vary by multiple minutes if not hours. I manually adjusted it to the correct time but it later changed so I gave up. It's no longer in my fleet so the dealership can take care of it now.

 

Interesting; my C300 Mercedes clock has been (literally) perfect from the day I purchased it six years ago this month.

 

The clock in my Toyota in-dash entertainment system also runs fast to the point where I just don't look at it anymore.

 

I wonder if there's some space time continuum issue involved?

 

My car clocks tend to keep decent time except for a VW I once owned. That car's clock ran slow like 2 minutes a month.

 

Have you been driving close to the speed of light?

 

Mine gets weird at about 88 mph. Mechanic said it was a flaky flux capacitor.

 

Marty 😁?

 

Just a thought: quartz crystals are temperature sensitive and cars can see both very high and very low temperatures through the year.

 

I have observed this, too, in my Nissan Micra over the 14 years I've had it. Not drastically fast, maybe a minute a month or thereabouts, but noticeably and consistently. I have no idea why this might be the case, but would be intrigued to find out.

 

Heeey, I totaled a Nissan Micra while on vacation in Ireland in 2013. Not sure if the clock was running fast or slow but it probably doesn't matter much these days😆

 

The first change to car clocks happened with the Carter-era implementation of energy-saving innovations (catalytic converters, cruise controls, rocker-panel fairings, etc.) They were to run slow, encouraging slower driving as everyone would expect they were running on time or a little bit early. This was actually quite popular, except with oil companies. In 95, this was part of a roll-back of some of those efficiency innovations that Gingrich et al passed as part of their contract with America. With clocks running fast, so did we, using more gas, selling more oil, keeping the world moving as it were.

 

I’ve owned 3 Subarus and noticed only 1 of them run about a min fast per month. Never noticed it or paid attention in my previous cars before the Subarus.
Maybe the weather flux’s have something to do with it

 

Our Toyota's are fairly accurate, I just change them twice a year.

 

My clock is always slow actually

 

I do not recognise this . Last four cars Mazda, Mazda, Mazda, Kia, had perfect clocks and 15000 - 19000 mls without any oil between routine oil changes.
Before that I had British cars over which I will draw a veil.

 

Were clocks in British cars made by Lucas, too?

 

Mine is dead on. I think it gets a GPS signal but I don't really know. Never had a problem with car clocks before this, either.

 

Clock in my car runs fine. Car itself is slooooow, though. Honestly, I'd be happier if it was the other way around, but what are you gonna do?

The clock in my microwave is hopeless though. Speeds up by several minutes a month. Not too bad if it's a cheap mechanical on your wrist, but I'm reluctant to strap my microwave to my wrist. I don't think it would fit under a cuff, and the WR is a joke.

 

BMW oddly used to calibrate their speedometers to read much slower than the real speed - within the limits of the law. Over 25mph, they would read 5mph slower than the actual speed.

 

In my 1972 Datsun 240z restomod the clock will drain the battery out in about a week. Imagine that. A huge car battery can only power that little clock for a week. It’s frustrating.

 

I think they are all like that unless it's connected online. never had a clock on a car that has the right time.

 

I’ve never noticed a consistency in car clocks being fast or slow.

I noticed the clock in my Subaru Outback runs maybe a minute fast each time I spring ahead or fall back, which is the only time I bother touching it. I wouldn’t call that an issue or even a pattern. None of the other cars I‘ve owned have been egregiously slow or fast.

Best car clock I ever had was the VDO analog clock in my ‘79 VW Scirocco: that thing was on the money/to the second year-round. I pulled it out of the dash when I sold the car in the late 80s, and one of these days I am going to put it in a case and make it into a desk clock. I bought a power supply for it around 1995, so I think I am due to finish the project.

 

Didn't Einstein say that if you drive fast enough, it should go backwards??? Unless you have OnlyOnemore's car...