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When I arrived at work this morning, it occurred to me that my trip odometer is reading too low. It reads 14.1 miles from my garage at home to my parking spot at work. My past vehicles have read 14.4 miles which is the same distance shown on Google Maps. I take the exact same route every day. I haven't tested the speedometer or total odometer. If everything is reading 2% too low (which I suspect may be the case since the speedometer and odometers use the same pulses from the vehicle speed sensor), then my actual fuel economy will be 2% higher than the manually calculated amount, which is almost 0.5 MPG at 23 MPG. I'm also getting 720 "extra" miles of full warranty and 1,200 miles of powertrain warranty. If I had a choice, I'd rather it read too low than too high.