Well, after waiting some 6 weeks, I've finally received Lamborghini's "official" response to my complaint that the Gallardo speedo was over reading by 10%.

They state that this is "acceptable" and they are not prepared to do anything to correct it. But I find this rather "unacceptable", especially seeing that the Australian Design Rules legislation for all vehicles that are to be registered for use on Australian roads, whether locally manufactured or imported, stipulate that a maximum of 6% error is allowed.

Therefore, my Gallardo is technically illegal for use on the road in Australia, as are probably most of the other Gallardo's in this country.

What I should be doing now is "raising all hell" about this, and demanding that something is done about it. Maybe I should even go back to The Department of Transport governing authority, and tell them about the problem, and Lamborghini's blatant disregard for correcting this problem, which I have now found occurs on almost every Gallardo. Since Lamborghini are flagrantly disregarding the legislation requirements for imported vehicles into Australia, I am wondering whether government forces may be brought to bare on them.

I feel that I should say something, but for me the easiest, quickest, and most stress free solution is probably going to be to simply pull the damn speedo out and recalibrate it myself. Whilst it has digital electronics fed by pulses (which I believe to be accurate, because the trip computer speed display is accurate), the actual gauge and needle display are almost certainly a standard analogue unit, and here-in lies the inaccuracy problem, but the sensitivity of any analogue meter is dead easy to adjust, especially if it is over-reading. I will do it myself on my car if necessary - but why should I have to?

My dealer is also rather pissed off with the lack of action by Lamborghini, so he has asked if I am willing to fix up other owner's speedos that have also been complained about over-reading.