I own a 2020 Speedmaster. Living in Namibia gives me the opportunity for long distance riding. My 2nd bike is a 2017 T100 Bonneville Spirit which I believe are actually collectors items.
Welcome to the forum, Danie. I’m not sure we have many people from your part of the world on here If you get any pics from those rideouts I'm sure lots of people would love to see them.
Thanks for your messages. Can anyone give some advice. My odometer stopped working but speedo works fine. Any possible ideas what could be wrong?
Thanks for your messages. Can anyone give some advice. My odometer stopped working but speedo works fine. Any possible ideas what could be wrong?
I'm not doubting what you say, but this seems totally weird and I'm struggling to imagine how this is possible, surely the computer on the bike will be calculating road speed and distance travelled using the same sensors (the ABS rings on the wheels), By 'odometer' I'm assuming you mean the measure of total distance travelled by the bike in it's lifetime, and not the 'trip' meter, i.e. the distance measure you can reset when you want. The lifetime mileage reading for the odometer must be stored in some non-volatile storage so that it doesn't get lost when battery is disconnected, so the only thing I could think of is that this is faulty and the ECU can't write to this to memory to update the mileage. For any of the conceivable faults though you would imaging the ECU would recognise this and show a warning light. As you don't mention this, I'm assuming there's no warning lights? If you happened to meant the 'trip' meter wasn't working, then if it is showing zero an not changing, perhaps the 'i' button used to select the info displayed is stuck in? A long press on the button is used to reset the mileage to zero so being stuck in would likely keep it reset, and the ECU might not recognise this as a fault.
Thanks. Both the actual odometer as well as Trip 1 and Trip 2 are not recording at all. The rest seems fine.
That strange. Presumably the fuel economy readout doesn't work either? (km/l, miles/gal) Assuming this is the 2020 Speedmaster then I would say take it to your dealer for a fix under warranty, but given your location, I don't know how practical that is. Thought just letting Triumph know of the fault now, may let you make a warranty claim later. (Or perhaps the bike was bought in 2019 and out of warranty? I know Americans, and possibly others, date vehicles, magazines, etc., weirdly )
Thinking more, that probably makes sense, the obvious way for the trip meters to work is by remembering the current odometer reading, then to get the trip value and subtract that from the current mileage. So if the odometer isn't updating, the trips wouldn't either. If the above is true, the fuel economy reading may or may not work, depending on how the software is working. None of this speculation helps you though. If it's a problem with the ECU, that's going to require specialist work. If it's the wheel sensors, wires or connectors, then replacement or cleaning could work. But surely you would get a warning light for such faults? If the ECU was fine but the speedo works and not odometer, the only thing I could think of is that speedo only requires input from one wheel sensor, but odometer requires both (or the other one). But I don't really believe that.
You could try the standard and often successful fix for IT problems, i.e. by turning it off and on again. In this case, disconnect the battery, leaving it off overnight before reconnecting it. I'll stop firing off replies now
Thanks. I have no knowledge or experience of ECUs though, just a lifetime working with computer systems as a job and hobby. So that let's me speculate wildly and sound authoritative
Thanks. Yes very odd. Everything works like fuel usage, rev counter everything except the odo and trip counter. It starts fine, runs like a dream.