2009 Speedometer is off by 10%
#11
My speedometer is off by about 10%. I checked it with my GPS then double check it against my car. Speedometer reads 40, I am actually only doing 36. It is a bit annoying. I just bought it used last week with 71 miles on it. If the speed is reading high then I guess there is less miles on it then it says. .....That will suck when I want to sell it in about 10 years. Any one else check theirs? Is there a fix?
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#16
I've had my 09 KLX since last March, putting on 13,000 km (50/50) and loving it. Looks like this weekend is my last tho, as the snow is moving in up here in Ottawa, Ontario (thank goodness for heated gloves - and yes the stock stator will handle a pair).
Overall I love the bike (rejetted with snorkel and drilled stock exhaust), with enough power to just get by, and a great 'plush' suspension (I don't jump much, mostly trails and a daily commute).
But one thing that *really* bugged my about the bike was that the +10% speedo error. As I really got bored with doing the mental math constantly I started looking around for an in-line digital speedo adjuster. There are a few out there, but I couldn't bring myself to part with over $100 to fix the problem. But then I found a real winner by http://www.12oclocklabs.com/ - less expensive than the competition, in-line with stock connectors (install was a snap and the instructions were easy-peasy), and the performance is rock-solid. Nicely packaged (it's *tiny*), and has a neat top-speed replay feature too. I managed a true 120kmh with no wind, and 130kmh with a slight tail wind.
Note that I have no connection with the company ... just a very satisfied customer (one that's not impressed very often).
All I need now is a spare set of wheels to save my good knobbies for the trails (I'm getting tired of swapping tires for those more serious trail-rides), and lengthened cables to get my bars higher than the small 1-inch rise that I managed to get with the stock cables.
Cheers,
Pete
Overall I love the bike (rejetted with snorkel and drilled stock exhaust), with enough power to just get by, and a great 'plush' suspension (I don't jump much, mostly trails and a daily commute).
But one thing that *really* bugged my about the bike was that the +10% speedo error. As I really got bored with doing the mental math constantly I started looking around for an in-line digital speedo adjuster. There are a few out there, but I couldn't bring myself to part with over $100 to fix the problem. But then I found a real winner by http://www.12oclocklabs.com/ - less expensive than the competition, in-line with stock connectors (install was a snap and the instructions were easy-peasy), and the performance is rock-solid. Nicely packaged (it's *tiny*), and has a neat top-speed replay feature too. I managed a true 120kmh with no wind, and 130kmh with a slight tail wind.
Note that I have no connection with the company ... just a very satisfied customer (one that's not impressed very often).
All I need now is a spare set of wheels to save my good knobbies for the trails (I'm getting tired of swapping tires for those more serious trail-rides), and lengthened cables to get my bars higher than the small 1-inch rise that I managed to get with the stock cables.
Cheers,
Pete
#19
Not sure how much the tire wear would change the calibration, but the changing the ratio takes all of 30 seconds. As I am commuting about half the time, I found that having to look down and say to myself "it's not really 90kmh" all the time to determine how much I had to slow down to avoid a ticket was bug'n me.
#20
The story that I got was that a law suit in Germany caused manufacturers to engineer speedos that way. BMW's tend to be 8% off, my '08 GSF1250 is 10%, my '03 DL1000 is 08%. A SPEEDO HEALER can correct this but tends to mess with the odometer.