Odometer issue! Help!
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I am not believing this... Here’s a guy that’s 59 years old, been riding since he was like 12, on his third Harley that I know of, and is a engineer by education.... He accidentally switched the odometer to trip mode, didn’t see the decimal point... So he’s thinking it’s turning a mile every 1/10th.. Fear not, I will never let him live it down.
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I am not believing this... Here’s a guy that’s 59 years old, been riding since he was like 12, on his third Harley that I know of, and is a engineer by education.... He accidentally switched the odometer to trip mode, didn’t see the decimal point... So he’s thinking it’s turning a mile every 1/10th.. Fear not, I will never let him live it down.
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Mileage is stored in both the ecm and the odometer on the speedometer.
With luck, its just the speedo that is glitched, and HD can install a new speedo, and let it learn it the correct mileage from the ECM.
Hence on new speedo's they are set in learn mode from the start that you can install yourself, you use the extra cable that comes with them to first let it learn the ecm's recorded mileage, then install it once it has learned that mileage. On a used speedo's, and way back around the Evo days, dealer had to pull the mileage off the ECM, then push the correct mileage to the replacement speedo. So on newer bike and used speedo that is working correctly, which will not be in learn mode to install yourself, Dealer just has to pull the mileage from the ECM, then flash that to the speedo.
Hence ECM recorded mileage, is the history mileage on the bike.
As for ECM screwed up from say a bad mileage sensor and showing the wrong mileage as well, that's a road you don't want to go down on a newer low miles bike.
P.S, with the mileage readin so far out, does not sound like the speedo set to KM, while using miles as the reference isntead.
With luck, its just the speedo that is glitched, and HD can install a new speedo, and let it learn it the correct mileage from the ECM.
Hence on new speedo's they are set in learn mode from the start that you can install yourself, you use the extra cable that comes with them to first let it learn the ecm's recorded mileage, then install it once it has learned that mileage. On a used speedo's, and way back around the Evo days, dealer had to pull the mileage off the ECM, then push the correct mileage to the replacement speedo. So on newer bike and used speedo that is working correctly, which will not be in learn mode to install yourself, Dealer just has to pull the mileage from the ECM, then flash that to the speedo.
Hence ECM recorded mileage, is the history mileage on the bike.
As for ECM screwed up from say a bad mileage sensor and showing the wrong mileage as well, that's a road you don't want to go down on a newer low miles bike.
P.S, with the mileage readin so far out, does not sound like the speedo set to KM, while using miles as the reference isntead.
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I am not believing this... Here’s a guy that’s 59 years old, been riding since he was like 12, on his third Harley that I know of, and is a engineer by education.... He accidentally switched the odometer to trip mode, didn’t see the decimal point... So he’s thinking it’s turning a mile every 1/10th.. Fear not, I will never let him live it down.
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I am not believing this... Here’s a guy that’s 59 years old, been riding since he was like 12, on his third Harley that I know of, and is a engineer by education.... He accidentally switched the odometer to trip mode, didn’t see the decimal point... So he’s thinking it’s turning a mile every 1/10th.. Fear not, I will never let him live it down.
This goes along with how many people have rode off with their disc lock still on ?
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I am not believing this... Here’s a guy that’s 59 years old, been riding since he was like 12, on his third Harley that I know of, and is a engineer by education.... He accidentally switched the odometer to trip mode, didn’t see the decimal point... So he’s thinking it’s turning a mile every 1/10th.. Fear not, I will never let him live it down.
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Guys, in the OP, I was only parroting what he told me.....
Yesterday was our bi-weekly breakfast with the guys. That’s something a group of 6 or so of us that ride do every other week (not uncommon amongst us retired guys), well he forgot it. So, in his absence I told our buds what was going on with Hank’s odometer. Next breakfast, the subject will come up and it’ll be he that explains what happened. It will take years for him to recover.
Yesterday was our bi-weekly breakfast with the guys. That’s something a group of 6 or so of us that ride do every other week (not uncommon amongst us retired guys), well he forgot it. So, in his absence I told our buds what was going on with Hank’s odometer. Next breakfast, the subject will come up and it’ll be he that explains what happened. It will take years for him to recover.
