platypus

Mate in work has an old-style Fazer 600. His speedo stopped working shortly
after having a new front tyre fitted. He thinks they may have damaged the
cable, but he couldn't figure out how to disconnect and check it. I had a
look at it for him, and it looks like an electronic sensor of some kind.
Anybody know anything about problems with these?

TIA

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"platypus" <platypus@ukrm.org> wrote in message
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> Mate in work has an old-style Fazer 600. His speedo stopped working
> shortly after having a new front tyre fitted. He thinks they may
> have damaged the cable, but he couldn't figure out how to disconnect
> and check it. I had a look at it for him, and it looks like an
> electronic sensor of some kind. Anybody know anything about problems
> with these?

Mine did that shortly after having a new tyre fitted. A few weeks or so
afterwards the speedo started dropping to 0mph then back up again. It got
worse and worse until it stopped reading completely. The miles weren't
increasing either.

After a week or two it started to come back and now hasn't flickered at all.

My bike lives outside and when the trouble with the speedo started it was
because the weather had turned very wet. As the weather became drier then
the speedo started working.

One thing which is quick and easy to look for is to check the tags haven't
been snapped off the seperate rotating ring inside the sealed sensor unit.
They're fairly cheap to replace, the sensors aren't.

There's a Fazer owners' club website.
Something like www.foc-u.co.uk

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