Hi there folks, i'm a newbie Ducati rider. Bought an ST4S last summer and all was great until on the hottest day of the year i was stuck in city traffic, bike got hot, fan didnt cut in as early as I would have liked (it seems this is quite usual) it hit 130+ and all of a sudden the LCD readout went nuts. The Clock started running like a stop watch, the Fuel Guage went to Full (although half empty) and stayed there and the Temp part stopped. Bike running fine. Bike has 24k miles on the clock (22 when I bought it) was told it had had belts at 20K and it also needs chain & sprockets so I left it into Ducati and been told its going to cost the guts of a grand to do chain/sprockets, Belts and a service and thats before they address the screen issue (which I believe is probably a short rather than an screen problem) so going to have a bash myself. Can anyone shed any light on the Screen issue? And is changing the belts something a semi (very semi) handy fella can do themselves?? All advice welcome!
Howdo! May have some condensation in the dash causing a possible short?? Scorpio Electronics - Home Do dash repairs.
Water gets into the LCD display and starts to corrode some of the little traces on the PCBs and the clocks can go haywire. I have a 02 ST4s and the temperature read out on LCD over-reads progressively up and seems to be voltage sensitive too. Mine has often indicated an overheat, as in 120+ but the ECU has never registered a temp fault. The fan appears to cut in at well over the calibrated 102c, but even swapping the two sensor inputs makes no difference, ergo, the issue is in the LCD display. A Bologne trained guy told me that the bit in the ECU that turns the sensor input into a reading is high quality and the bit in the LCD display is crap, at best its an annoyance and at worst a distraction.
