Hi when you change a faulty Speedo do you need a code to match the new Speedo
I don’t know is the answer to your question, but have you considered having yours repaired? Mine developed a fault that at first drained the battery and then started blowing the main fuse. I sent it to these people, www.autotronics. co.uk, and they repaired it for around £200. Less than a third of the price of a new one at the time. This was around 3 years ago and it’s been fine ever since. Gerard
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My bike’s a V7 iii by the way. Gerard
Thanks for your reply but I managed to source a used item at a good price
I suppose you’ll just have to plug it in and see. It will either work or it won’t.
I’ve previously done a speedo swap on a 1200sport as I’d cracked the original’s screen trying to get if off to seal it. If I remember correctly there was some reprogramming required to do with the keycode as it didn’t recognise my key. I can’t recall exactly what I had to do but I think I needed the user code of the replacement speedo to sort it out.
I’m not sure a V7 has a user code, I’ve never entered one on mine if it does??
If the ECU also stores the mileage you may have to get the replacement coded but best to just plug it in and see if it starts sweeping and behaving as normal.
For legal purposes you must record and date stamp the true mileage. The handbook inner page is a good place to do it and sign it as true and accurate as the vehicle legal owner at the date of change over.
Always keep yourself right with such matters involving speedo changes and mileage for if you sell a vehicle with an undeclared mileage discrepancy you could be looking at a prosecution for failing to disclose/fraud.
Some get a tug by accidentally stating a mileage but when the ECU is interrogated the vehicles true mileage is a higher recorded mileage.