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Old Jul 14, 2013 | 04:16 PM
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Hey everybody!
I had something unusual happen to me today. Was out riding with a few people. We rode about 60-70 miles and stopped for lunch. After lunch, we started back towards home. We got about 20-25 miles into our return trip and one of my riding partners pulled up beside me and said that my taillights were not working. I wrote it off as a burnt out bulb, made a mental note to replace it, and we continued on our way. Later we got caught in the rain. I looked down and my speedometer had stopped working. The backlight was on but the needle was at zero as I was riding down the road. We pulled over to get out of the rain and were stopped for about 15-20 minutes. When I restarted the bike, the speedo was working perfectly. I don't think the taillights and speedo are related. I am a little concerned about the speedo. If the speedo isn't working, then the odometer isn't working. If that has happened frequently since new, I may have bought a bike with a lot more miles than I thought. The bike is a 2004 Low Rider with about 15500 miles on it.

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Old Jul 14, 2013 | 09:42 PM
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I have had this happen on more than 1 occasion. I found that if I shut the bike off and restart it starts working again. Never had a issue with the tail lights though.
 
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Old Jul 14, 2013 | 11:00 PM
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Am having this issue as well. I just took apart the console and cleaned up all the electronics. As the problem is intermittant, hard to tell if I have fixed it or not.

Also, I believe the odometer takes its reading from the ECM so should be ok.
 
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