Dashboard Issue (video)

This is a 2000 VFR. Stock electronics with the exception of an HID kit for the front lights.

All of a sudden the dash started freaking out. It is standing still. Notice the trip meter is counting up miles really quickly and the gas meter says empty when it is actually 3/4 full. any ideas? Last summer it's headlights were occasionally cutting out (then i replaced them with HID) dont know if that was in any way connected with the dash issue.

YouTube - VFR Dash Issue

any help would be appreciated

 

wow thats nuts. my first guess at dealing with crazy stuff like that is grounding issues to the ecu or bike.

 

Damn. I second Q. Simple stuff first. Start checking connected circut ground wire to true ground.

 

anyting? did it blow up..

 

I've had a variety of ground-related issues that caused signals to go wonky (dimly lit until the switch was flipped, then dark) as well as the dash lights & digital display going blank. I tried cleaning/lubing switches & connectors, then finally pulled my head out of my backside & checked the grounds - I was getting power bleeding back through the ground circuit. I peeled back the wire harness up to the point that it tucks between motor & frame 7 found a few corroded splices into the common ground, so I just consolidated all grounds from the dash to one splice.
No problems now, except the previous owner's repair of a rubbed-out lead on the plastic circuit board of the dash. one of those large rubber boots made enough contact to rub through the metal "wire" on the board & the p.o. just bridged it with a wire. All of my other work disturbed that, so now i have an intermittent connection there... *sigh* I hear there is a product called Liquid Metal or somthing of the sort that allows those circuts to be renewed by bascially "painting" with this metallic liquid. We will see...