I recently replaved the battery in my '04 Foreman ES. The display now reads in metric. I can't find anything in the manual and the dealer says to bring it in (yeah, right). Surely there is an easy way to switch back to miles from kilometers. What am I missing. Any help? Thanks!

 

Unfortunetly there is nothing you can do to switch it back and forth. We had a meter shipped to us that read in metric. Called Honda and they said the wrong meter was in the box and to reorder. It doesn't make sense though that yours reads in Km now but read in mph before.

 

Well i don't know about your Forman ES but i 04 Rancher AT could switch form MPH to KM i have sence sold that so i can't walk you through the steps. but i know it can be done. sorry i'm not more help.

HR

 

on my rancher you hit h+m at the same time, maybe hold it fo a sec, i think.

 

I tried this on a rancher and a 450 we have in the shop and nothing happens. I also tried holding every combination of buttons and nothing will make the meter switch back and forth.

 

There has to be a way.
Let me check for understanding here....it used to work in MPH, you replaced the battery , and now its stuck in metric?
Id try disconnecting the battery for about 1/2 minute and reattach it.
Seems to me, ive seen this before and there is a way to switch it back. I dont have my owners manual handy, but i thought i read in there how to switch it.

 

After thinking about it some more, i was wondering if maybe the positive cable end, touched ground while you were switching batteries. I know on honda cars, thats how the computer is reset. Remove both cables, and touch the ends together...and the learned memory is gone. Maybe thats what happened on your change over.

 

Thanks for the responses. I tried the H+M buttons and it didn't work. I don't know if the positive cable touched ground but it is possible. In my orginal post I forgot to mention that my odometer reading now reads 650,000+ KMs and my operating time is now 54,000+ hours. Of course this is not correct although how cool would it be to be able to ride that much? I will try disconnecting and reconnecting the battery next time I'm at the farm, hopefully tomorrow. Again, thanks to all.

 

dosent anyone know about this odometer problem or is honda just trying to pull a fast one over on us ,saying that we have to replace it