Setting the Odometer?

[jjbrunton]

So my last post was an issue with the dashboard on my Vstrom 650 ABS.. Short and sweet of it was that the dashboard had failed due to corrosion (the connector on the back had come clean off)..

I have replaced it with a brand new one but unfortunately that has set the mileage to 0.

Luckily I've tracked my miles in an app since my MOT and I'm fairly sure I can be accurate within 20 miles or so. The question is, how do I set the mileage on the dashboard?

[Holmsey]

When I had the clock changed in mine .... I just wrote the mileage in the service book.

[jjbrunton]

And left the bike odometer at an invalid count?

[kwackboy]

The question is, how do I set the mileage on the dashboard?

You can't ,  Only the trip meters can be reset .

[oslin]

As has been said  just make a note in the service book somewhere obvious perhaps in red and sign it, so there is no question of fraud when you come to sell it, I had to do that with an Aprilia I sold for the same reason.

[haydn]

Yeah, what he says.
I did the same in a Suzuki Swift after its clocks spontaneously combusted!

[Rusty Nuts]

There are lots of ads offering what is coyly referred to as "mileage correction" around here. If an odo was corrected to the actual mileage of the vehicle, is the simple act of changing an odometer reading from wrong to right still just a flat legal no-no?