Worldwide Speedo Failure Register

[organ donor]

Donno why, but the permanently flashing neutral light is so annoying.

 

[jtemple]

was the guy yelling at you for making too much noise? haha...

Just a guy at work clowning around.

 

[jtemple]

I don't understand why there's a headlight lamp that is always on. Kind of a waste of space, IMO.

 

[Tony Gonzalez]

Have you or anyone you know had your speedo fail and had it replaced under warranty.

What were the issues?

My speedo jumped over 1000klm between 1 ride and the next.

The importer states it was tested and is fine!

Please post any speedo issues you have ever had with your past and current bikes.

Cheers

Stu

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Sounds like it's losing power.

Have you or anyone you know had your speedo fail and had it replaced under warranty.

What were the issues?

My speedo jumped over 1000klm between 1 ride and the next.

The importer states it was tested and is fine!

Please post any speedo issues you have ever had with your past and current bikes.

Cheers

Stu

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[Tony Gonzalez]

Have you or anyone you know had your speedo fail and had it replaced under warranty.

What were the issues? My 2011 TE350 speedo got wet, caused a drain on the battery. Now disconnected I still have a small bleed on the battery. I can't seem to find the small bleed now. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated !

My speedo jumped over 1000klm between 1 ride and the next.

The importer states it was tested and is fine!

Please post any speedo issues you have ever had with your past and current bikes.

Cheers

Stu

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[Roadhazardguy]

Mine works like it should as far as I've noticed but one day while riding the rubber covering the button went missing. Does anyone have a broken one they want to get rid of so I can rob the top cover off of it? I'd like to prevent any moisture from getting in there and messing it up. Thanks!

Tony

 

[Roadhazardguy]

This may be a dumb question but do yall think it would be possible to get one of these units to work on a non computered bike and get everything to work like it should? What does the tach get it's signal from?

 

[Magnum Shooter]

The speedo crapped out on my 08 smr at 2400 miles after a hour and a half ride home in the rain one day. I just replaced it with a trail tech vapor.

 

[Dangermouse449]

Sounds like it's losing power.

My TE449 was doing the same thing from new.
It sounded normal when cranking, but the battery was weak.
When it stalled on the compression stroke, the voltage was too low to crank it over on the first try & the voltage was dropping low enough to drop out the trip meter & clock settings.
The original lead-acid battery was a 130cca, I replaced it with a smaller, lighter Lithium Ion battery with 220cca.
I have got a full ride in without loosing the trip & clock data for the first time since owning the bike!!
It also cranks over much quicker when starting as well.

 

[Dangermouse449]

I have solved the trip meter reset problem on my 2012 TE-449. Every time the starter would stall causing the 12 volt supply to drop below the reset point the trip meter would reset to zero

The first thing I did was increase the battery and starter wires to 8 gage ( both supply and ground) and installed a lithium battery. This helped but was not the fix, the starter didn't stall as often.

Now I have installed a diode in the 12 volt supply to the dash unit. The diode allows the 12 volts to inter the meter but prevents it from back feeding when the input goes low. Also I installed a 100 MFD capacitor on the meter side of the diode to the ground wire This capacitor charges up and supplies the power to the meter when the battery supply goes low. This has completely eliminated the reset problem. I installed these components in the pigtail that goes into the dash unit and covered then in hear shrink and tape. The diode goes inline of the "12 volts from battery" lead, pin one (1) on my dash unit. the ground is on pin two (2) of the unit.

Also I have replaced the lithium battery with a fresh lead acid battery and the starter has not stalled since. Or should I say yet.

I went to the trouble of opening mine up ages ago, but didn't pursue it. It appears that they were originally designed to have a battery back-up fitted. (See Pics)

As I have said elsewhere, I fixed mine when I fitted a lithium main battery to the bike, the crank voltage now stays high enough to prevent speedo drop-outs.

 

[bud7041]

So had fail come up on Speedo after trail ride where there was 6 water crossings. Still there the next morning. Stoped bike turned key off so engine stoped. Great FAIL GONE but started to move Speedo was reading 299kmph Shit then all of a sudden back to correct speed. So the next water crossing and all water crossings in future slow slow. Why o why would you make a part so sensitive to water.

 

[Dangermouse449]

I'd be checking on your wiring & plugs for sealing.
My whole bike has been under water, only the RH grip poking out.
My speedo still works fine.

 

[organ donor]

Sooooo .... we didn´t buy Italian bikes for their world class electrics anyway!

 

[bud7041]

It still works ok but thanks for the advice Dangermouse449 will check them out.

 

[Dangermouse449]

Sooooo .... we didn´t buy Italian bikes for their world class electrics anyway!

I bought mine because most of the important electronic stuff is Japanese :-)

 

[reveille]

I hope mine isn't starting to crap out. After I washed the bike last weekend I noticed the speedo disply was on without the key turned on. I was able to push the kill switch in to kill the pwer. After a hour or so it no longer stayed on. I am concerned but so far it still works good. 60+ hours and 1500 miles so far.

 

[EricV]

Donno why, but the permanently flashing neutral light is so annoying.

I'm with you there. I gotta admit, though, I've never really looked into it to try to remedy that one.

What I do- on my 630 (if it's likely to rain/shower...won't help otherwise)- is to take a generous sheet of cling-wrap, lay that over the speedo and then "roll" a rubber band around the edge until it "snaps" underneath the unit. That method usually leaves a very tight/clear film over it, protecting ingress from the screen, button and where the halves meet. As mentioned it's not gonna do much if I drop the bike in a stream, or a gush from underneath. I started w/ the cling-wrap after mine fogged up a bit after a storm, and after reading jtemple going through the hassles with his.

 

[huskylove]

Anyone got any tips on making the TE speedometer display the SMR speed. For 17" wheels. It says in the service manual a new dash can only select either mode the very first startup and that's it....

Anyway to erase it and start fresh so I can activate the smr 17" wheel speed? ?

 

[jtemple]

Anyone got any tips on making the TE speedometer display the SMR speed. For 17" wheels. It says in the service manual a new dash can only select either mode the very first startup and that's it....

Anyway to erase it and start fresh so I can activate the smr 17" wheel speed? ?

Not happening. You get one chance to choose the wheel size when you install a new speedometer; that's it. There's no switching back & forth. If you want accurate gauges, you have to have two different speedos and swap them when you swap wheels.

Dealer confirmed; we both learned the hard way together when I had my gauge replaced under warranty.

 

[Dangermouse449]

Anyone got any tips on making the TE speedometer display the SMR speed. For 17" wheels. It says in the service manual a new dash can only select either mode the very first startup and that's it....

Anyway to erase it and start fresh so I can activate the smr 17" wheel speed? ?

I would imagine there would be a pulse modifier you could use for changing the signal to the dash.
I'd have a search around the net for that, not so much just Husky, but in general, as a lot of the bikes use the magnet in disc idea.
Someone will make something, it will be just a matter of modifying a % of the speedo pulse for the difference in wheel size.....