speedo error

[norcal rider]

I have 5 to 6 MPH error at freeway speeds (reads higher). Is there an easy fix for this?

 

[imrubicon]

Dont care would be my fix or drive 5 over all the time .
Most the bikes I have owned are off a few miles at highway speeds . Maybe speedo healer will come out with a product

 

[Twitch]

I've gotten in the habit of looking to my GPS for that anymore.

 

[Checkswrecks]

It's about 8% on nearly all Jap bikes, as discussed in previous posts.
Do the math, use GPS speed, or get a speedohealer: http://www.tobefast.com/speedo-healer-m-4772.html

 

[jwhuls]

I have 7 miles or so off. My dealer is ging to fix today.
I am in the position to consider 7 mph as fraud. I can't discuss mileage, handling or ridability without an asterisk. The base of these calculations is incorrect.

Been suspecting since day one. two weeks in and 2K miles, I asked my dealer and he said he knew.

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

 

[fredz43]

I have 7 miles or so off. My dealer is ging to fix today.
I am in the position to consider 7 mph as fraud. I can't discuss mileage, handling or ridability without an asterisk. The base of these calculations is incorrect.

Been suspecting since day one. two weeks in and 2K miles, I asked my dealer and he said he knew.

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

Please let us know what your dealer does today to fix the speed reading, especially if he doesn't end up with a corresponding error in the odometer reading.

 

[Firefight911]

I have 7 miles or so off. My dealer is ging to fix today.
I am in the position to consider 7 mph as fraud. I can't discuss mileage, handling or ridability without an asterisk. The base of these calculations is incorrect.

Been suspecting since day one. two weeks in and 2K miles, I asked my dealer and he said he knew.

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

This sounds a bit extreme. There isn't a car made that has a dead nuts accurate speedometer. Up to a 10% variance is pretty normal. More so that what your speedometer states go do a distance check. You'll probably find a lot more accuracy there over your speedo.

Take a look here to understand a bit more about speedo settings/accuracy before you go throwing the baby out with the bath water.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedometer

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[stevepsd]

I have 7 miles or so off. My dealer is ging to fix today.
I am in the position to consider 7 mph as fraud. I can't discuss mileage, handling or ridability without an asterisk. The base of these calculations is incorrect.

Been suspecting since day one. two weeks in and 2K miles, I asked my dealer and he said he knew.

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

The Speedo reads high. The odometer is almost dead-nuts on.

 

[justbob]

I have 7 miles or so off. My dealer is ging to fix today.
I am in the position to consider 7 mph as fraud. I can't discuss mileage, handling or ridability without an asterisk. The base of these calculations is incorrect.

Been suspecting since day one. two weeks in and 2K miles, I asked my dealer and he said he knew.

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

how is the dealer going to correct the speedo error ?

 

[avc8130]

Bike speedo/odometer error is rampant.

For comparison purposes:

Last fall a buddy and I rode from PA to NC and back. We did ~2500 miles. I say "~" because we don't KNOW what we did. Here is my basis:

At the first fuel stop, I commented on how far we had gone. I thought 140 miles, or at least that is what my Buell 1125CR felt. His Triumph Speed Triple argued back with ~125. I also always commented that we were traveling at a heck of a pace, generally ~5mph higher than he thought.

We tracked this all through the trip. At the end of the trip, I showed 2601 miles. His bike indicated 2340ish.

Somewhere we were disagreeing in the ~10% range. BOTH on speedo and odo.

I haven't checked the Tenere. I think the speedo reads high. I find myself traveling at a higher indicated speed than I did on my Buell through back roads. I dont THINK I am going any faster.

ac

 

[Don in Lodi]

Mine is about 9% high by gps. I don't care. Every bike I've owned has been high. Don't get me onto wheels and tires and gear swaps on my Toyota...

 

[Zuan]

I have 7 miles or so off. My dealer is ging to fix today.
I am in the position to consider 7 mph as fraud. I can't discuss mileage, handling or ridability without an asterisk. The base of these calculations is incorrect.

Been suspecting since day one. two weeks in and 2K miles, I asked my dealer and he said he knew.

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

I too would be interested to hear what the dealer does to fix this.

My bike is 9% high on the speedometer and 3% high on the odometer. I am still undecided whether I will install a speedohealer. I don't care too much about the odometer reading, I just find it very frustrating to look at a speedometer that I know reads almost 10% high. In my view this margin of error is excessive.

John

 

[3putt]

I use the SpeedoDRD by 12 O'clock labs. I tested with many settings, and settled on 6.1%, this makes the speedo indicate about 1 mph faster than the GPS. The odometer is 2% off now. In other words when it shows I traveled 200 miles I actually went about 204 miles.

There is no connection, you must CUT (YIKES) the blue wire from ABS module to ECU. This means if you loose power to the speedoDRD then you will loose Speedo, ABS, Traction control. Don't ask how I know. So, if you choose to go this route, make a easy plug connection so if your speedoDRD fails you can simply plug the blue wire together and be back to normal.

P.S. and yes, when you fix the error, your MPG will drop, because it was not true before.

 

[stevepsd]

This means if you loose power to the speedoDRD then you will loose Speedo, ABS, Traction control. Don't ask how I know. So, if you choose to go this route, make a easy plug connection so if your speedoDRD fails you can simply plug the blue wire together and be back to normal.

The SpeedoHealer comes with a jumper plug to do this very thing.

 

[Checkswrecks]

how is the dealer going to correct the speedo error ?

This reminds of a flight attendant story.


Flight attendants are ALWAYS too hot or cold. They are ALWAYS listening to passengers asking to turn the heat up/down.


Back in the 70's when I was working L-1011 TriStars, nearly every flight had a flight attendant come into the cockpit to ask the flight engineer to change the temp in the cabin.


Finally, there was an airline that got proactive and put a "limited control" at the purser's station. The cabin staff could exercise a limited amount of temperature control and the continuous cockpit whine service nearly stopped on those airplanes.


Even though the knob wasn't connected to anything.
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[HoebSTer]

I am a little upset. Love the bike and bought it, but now the purchase has been tainted.

Jeff

Isn't this a little much? Is this your first Japanese bike? The others that have posted are correct in saying nearly all bikes are now like this. We don't know why, it just is!!!!! I am very sorry you feel taken advantage of and your purchase is now tainted. We are all in this together, you aren't the only one!!!! I am really enjoying riding this bike, more than anything ever before!!!! I like it better than past Honda ST1300 where it's speedo was also off 10% from factory. I just drove it, just like now. So, I and many others hope you can find the peace to ::021:: ::001:: !!!!!!! ::008::

Jeff

 

[DuMar]

This reminds of a flight attendant story.


Flight attendants are ALWAYS too hot or cold. They are ALWAYS listening to passengers asking to turn the heat up/down.


Back in the 70's when I was working L-1011 TriStars, nearly every flight had a flight attendant come into the cockpit to ask the flight engineer to change the temp in the cabin.


Finally, there was an airline that got proactive and put a "limited control" at the purser's station. The cabin staff could exercise a limited amount of temperature control and the continuous cockpit whine service nearly stopped on those airplanes.


Even though the knob wasn't connected to anything.
::013::

I know a guy that got tired of his wife dicking around with the thermostat in their home, so he disconnected it and wired up another one she didn't know about. She never new the difference and his heating bill went down. )

 

[stevepsd]

Isn't this a little much? Is this your first Japanese bike? The others that have posted are correct in saying nearly all bikes are now like this. We don't know why, it just is!!!!! I am very sorry you feel taken advantage of and your purchase is now tainted. We are all in this together, you aren't the only one!!!! I am really enjoying riding this bike, more than anything ever before!!!! I like it better than past Honda ST1300 where it's speedo was also off 10% from factory. I just drove it, just like now. So, I and many others hope you can find the peace to ::021:: ::001:: !!!!!!! ::008::

Jeff

My Triumph Tiger is off by around the same amount as the ST, same for my KTM.

I don't know why, other than the speedos cannot read slow, by law. I believe the tolerance allowed is 0% low/10% fast.

The wifes new mini cooper also reads 7% fast, same for my Toyota FJ (6% fast) and my F350 (5%). The only vehicle that I have that reads dead-nuts on is my '10 Porsche.

I bet my other bikes read fast as well, but back in the day we did not have a real simple means of telling like we now have with GPS.

 

[norcal rider]

I don't really care, GPS works as speedo. Just want to know of an easy fix. Please post back what dealer does fora fix.

 

[fredz43]

The IN dealer was going to fix this two days ago, but no report. I'll bet he didn't fix it.