Speedometer calibration?

[Medicbobs]

Does anyone know how to calibrate the speedometer on the 2020 Vader or any other NEWER Chinese bike? I've tried Youtube, calling these dealers, attempting to contact Baodiao themselves.

- The trick with holding the left button after startup does nothing.
- The trick with holding both buttons after startup does nothing.

I am about 7-10mph off and simply cannot just "wing" the speed all the time.


If anyone can help me with this please. Thanks!

[Medicbobs]

Btw...both of these methods do not work on my 2020 Vader.

[Big Bird]

I also had no luck. Speedo is off by about 20%. Says 60mph at a gps 50 mph and it jumps around too. I noticed in the video when the dash boots up it sweeps up then down on the rpm gauge. With mine it just sweeps down from the top. Seems anyone with the freshest batch of these vaders hasn't been able to crack it. I'm just happy my rpm and gas gauges work. I use my cell phone for speed for now.

[Medicbobs]

Originally Posted by Big Bird

I also had no luck. Speedo is off by about 20%. Says 60mph at a gps 50 mph and it jumps around too. I noticed in the video when the dash boots up it sweeps up then down on the rpm gauge. With mine it just sweeps down from the top. Seems anyone with the freshest batch of these vaders hasn't been able to crack it. I'm just happy my rpm and gas gauges work. I use my cell phone for speed for now.

Yeah I'll have to get my phone going with a GPS app until there is a fix for sure. When I start my bike up, it goes up and down within a couple seconds and I've try all the combos with no luck..

[daytonacat]

Bob
I did the speedo cal on my 2020 Vader per the video (FOR THE MOST PART)
When you turn the key ON, you much push BOTH buttons at teh same time rather quickly.Then it will advance to teh E2 screen. If you get it wrong, do it again until
it hits it. Then follow the rest of the film.
Took me about 15 minutes to figure it out about hitting the 2 buttons really quick after you turn the key on.

Carl

[Medicbobs]

Originally Posted by daytonacat

Bob
I did the speedo cal on my 2020 Vader per the video (FOR THE MOST PART)
When you turn the key ON, you much push BOTH buttons at teh same time rather quickly.Then it will advance to teh E2 screen. If you get it wrong, do it again until
it hits it. Then follow the rest of the film.
Took me about 15 minutes to figure it out about hitting the 2 buttons really quick after you turn the key on.

Carl

Thanks for the response sir. None worked. Guess I'll be buying an older cluster. The new ones can't be calibrated as far as I know of.

[GScott]

Yes. This really sucks. Hard to believe they would use something that is so far off, and that can't be calibrated. Seems the only solution for a working speedo is to replace the entire unit with one that can be calibrated? Has anyone here tried that? Maybe one like this? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005...5cd42e0eo9J1Zd

[JerryHawk250]

Install the SpeedoDRD U1. It's a universal calibrator. Very easy to install and calibrate any digital speedometer.

[GScott]

I wondered about changing the pickup, if there were different wheels with different contact spacing. Or something. This is interesting. At $80 its twice the price of a different gauge that can be calibrated. Like the one I linked.

[jban123]

Does anyone know how to calibrate this model?
Pressing both buttons simultaneously after turning ignition does bring it to a program screen and shows “p0000”. What do I do after that?

This is the speedometer- [URL="https://www.amazon.com.au/KIKYO-Motorcycle-Speedometer-Tachometer-Replacement/dp/B08QZNGGVM"

[PlagueOfFear]

Hi I'm new here and I'm looking for the answer to this same question. Has anybody figured it out yet? I have the sweep down version and so far all I can do is change from miles to km, change the color, and set the time. My speed is off by at least 10mph and jumps around a lot too.
I'm assuming most ppl here have had to upgrade yall's hardware?
I bought my 2020 3 months ago with less than 300 miles on it. I have put a thousand miles on it since, but as we know that number is wrong because the speedometer is not calibrated right. Is there any possible way to fix this without having to buy some new hardware?
Thanks yall!

[Mudflap]

Never could figure out how to change it on my Chinese scooter so I added an $18 GPS speedometer. It has a bright LED display and is powered by USB. Always accurate unless you're in a tunnel or parking garage.

[PlagueOfFear]

Yeah I've been using my phone but that's frustrating bc we shouldn't have to use GPS. Oh well, I mostly wanted my odometer to be right.

[Texas Pete]

You can get cheaper than $80 on Aliexpress. That is if you want to take a chance on it being the same thing. It looks like it, but the Chinese-English descriptions are a little wonky.

[Texas Pete]

There are also people that make their own speedometers with cheap micro-controller development boards.


https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-Bike-Speedometer/