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    Replacement speedometer with double the miles on the clock - Can I change it?

    So I've got a replacement set of gauges to replace the ragged ones on my GS650GL. The new ones read almost 19000 miles, but the current one only has 8000 something on it. Is there a way I can run the thing forward or backwards? Not for fraud, but because I'd like it to be more accurate. In all honesty, it doesn't much matter because the old one was wrong too - the speed cable was smashed to where it couldn't spin. So it is off already. But I'd like to make it as right as I can.

    #2
    The only way you can rollback the mileage is to open up the speedo and take apart the odometer.
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      #3
      The other way you can get them to match is to disconnect the speedo cable, then RIDE for about 11,000 miles.

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        #4
        I have about the opposite issue where my old gauges read over 22000 but the new ones are at 20k. I'm going to look for a speedometer shop to help me out hopefully.
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          #5
          For 2,000 miles? Who cares?
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            #6
            Originally posted by Steve View Post
            The other way you can get them to match is to disconnect the speedo cable, then RIDE for about 11,000 miles.

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            Bwahahaha I like the way you think. But part of the point of new gauges is having gauges that work. I've been riding blind - busted needle on the speedo due to lack of lube and it pegging too hard plus a busted tach cable - for too long.

            I could take the odo apart, and probably get it back together. Maybe.

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              #7
              Originally posted by WilliamGLX81 View Post
              I could take the odo apart, and probably get it back together. Maybe.
              Take the old one apart first, so you know how to do it.
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                #8
                Ride more, think less.
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                  #9
                  When I took the speedo apart on my bike, I noticed that the odometer can be run backwards.

                  But in order to take any appreciable amount of mileage off, you need to construct some kind of rig and let it run for a week at least. Wouldn't be worth the wear and tear on a speedo I wanted to keep.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by eil View Post
                    When I took the speedo apart on my bike, I noticed that the odometer can be run backwards.

                    But in order to take any appreciable amount of mileage off, you need to construct some kind of rig and let it run for a week at least. Wouldn't be worth the wear and tear on a speedo I wanted to keep.
                    Ohhhh, I don't think that's quite the case. It reads 10,000.3 now. I know the bike was wrecked at around 7,500 miles and the cable was mashed then. I don't know how much it was ridden since.

                    I could post instructions, but I don't think I should. I know I'm being honest about it, but anyone can wander across the forum. Heck, I added miles to it because as far as I'm concerned, the bike has unknown mileage - it's just easier to count up from a nice round number to see how many miles I'VE put on it. If someone wants to know, I can explain. It was really quite easy. It's not fraud because 1) I'm not lying about the miles, and 2) I'm not planning to sell the bike - and if I do, I'm not planning to lie about the miles. I could just as easily lie and say the gauges were wrong if they were accurate.
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