Since taking delivery of my bike last week, I’ve been taking advantage of some nice early fall weather to rack up some break-in km. At my first fuel stop I recorded, as I always do, total (odo) km, trip 1 km, and reset trip 1.The readings at that time were:
Odo: 286 km
Trip 1: 291.7 km
Trip 2: 291.7 km
‘Odd’, thought I to myself, ‘how could the trip meters possibly have a greater value than the total distance odometer?’ I didn’t record the values on delivery, but recall the odo showed 7 km and I’m pretty sure trip meters both showed a slightly lesser value, which seemed reasonable assuming trip meter readings are volatile, and whatever distance put on at the factory would have been lost when the battery was disconnected after assembly line testing.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the odo vs trip reading since then and the discrepancy does not seem to be a one-time thing. The readings as of today are:
Odo: 535 km
Trip 1: 257.6 km
Trip 2: 549.3 km
According to the odo, the distance covered since the fuel stop is 249 km, yet the trip meters indicate a distance covered 257.6 km, a discrepancy of over 3 %.
It’s not like I’m out to take make measurements with the odo or trip meters, but for the life of me I can’t think of how or why the odo and trip meters would not record distance exactly the same. Any ideas as to why this might be happening? Has anyone else run into this and if so, is there a fix?
I’ve done a thread search but haven’t been able to find previous discussion on this subject. Mind you, what with all the fuel strip related hits for keywords like odometer or trip meter, I might have missed something.
Odo: 286 km
Trip 1: 291.7 km
Trip 2: 291.7 km
‘Odd’, thought I to myself, ‘how could the trip meters possibly have a greater value than the total distance odometer?’ I didn’t record the values on delivery, but recall the odo showed 7 km and I’m pretty sure trip meters both showed a slightly lesser value, which seemed reasonable assuming trip meter readings are volatile, and whatever distance put on at the factory would have been lost when the battery was disconnected after assembly line testing.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the odo vs trip reading since then and the discrepancy does not seem to be a one-time thing. The readings as of today are:
Odo: 535 km
Trip 1: 257.6 km
Trip 2: 549.3 km
According to the odo, the distance covered since the fuel stop is 249 km, yet the trip meters indicate a distance covered 257.6 km, a discrepancy of over 3 %.
It’s not like I’m out to take make measurements with the odo or trip meters, but for the life of me I can’t think of how or why the odo and trip meters would not record distance exactly the same. Any ideas as to why this might be happening? Has anyone else run into this and if so, is there a fix?
I’ve done a thread search but haven’t been able to find previous discussion on this subject. Mind you, what with all the fuel strip related hits for keywords like odometer or trip meter, I might have missed something.
