Dakota Digital 2014+ Replacement Harley Touring Gauges MLX-8414

I installed this product on my 18 street glide. The biggest reason for this upgrade was to have actual oil temps available while riding. Not just cycle heads temps. Additionally the gauges i had were stock and looked very dated with the other mod’s made on my bike. It brought the overall look to modern times without going over board. Installation was a breeze without having to glass the bike at all. I highly recommend if your in the market to purchase these gauges.

Great product works well

Really easy install. The customization is nice and the addition of oil temp and head temp is a must have when riding in hot climates. Only issue I had was that the outer gauges can not be viewed while wearing polarized sunglasses. The speedometer and tach gauges were fine. Once I changed to non polarized lenses, all were visible. I would recommend buying these.

I ordered these on a Sat and they arrived Tuesday morning. They were packaged well and included an instruction book. You can also download the instructions from the Dakota Digital website ahead of time if you want to get a look ahead. Installation was pretty easy if you are a little mechanically inclined. Took me about 2 hours total including changing out the oil drain plug for the oil temp sensor. Download the Dakota Digital Orange App in the app store. Set up for Bluetooth always on. In my case the odometer reading had to be transferred using the Trip Function button programming method as opposed to the phone app. Then I started setting up the displays I wanted on each gauge. I set mine up with 2 readings on each of the small gauges and 2 readings each under the Speedo and the Tach. That gave me 10 numerical readings of information. There is also the fuel bar on top of the Speedo and the Tach bar on top of the Tach. I went to set the clock and it would not keep the hour setting that I would try and save. It would revert to 1 hour prior to the actual time no matter what I set it at. It occurred to me the next day that I probably had DST option selected in the Boom Box settings. I checked and I did have it selected. When I turned that setting off and then manually changed the clock in the Boom Box, it also changed the clock time in the new gauges. A call to DD also confirmed that the clocks are synched, but you cannot use DST setting in the Boom Box. It is great to be able to call a company talk to a live person when you call. Choosing a color theme can be a lifelong adventure. There are numerous preset combo and solid color themes and you can pick. And then you change individual colors inside these themes. You can save 3 custom themes that you create and can load at any time – as long as it in Set Up mode. The 1st ride I took was at night and the colors looked great. Since I live in the sunshine state, I was very curious to see what they would look like in the daytime. My night colors showed up fine until I put my Costas on. They pretty much wiped out everything except the large Speedo and Tach numbers. After experimenting with some colors, I opted on an all white for sunshine and a shade of the green for overcast days. I still have to shift my head a little here and there to see the white and green on the small gauges with my sunglasses but still worth it to me. The 1st ride showed that the gear display was working, except when I stopped at a light and put it in Neutral it showed 0 as the gear as opposed to the traditional green N. Never fear, about 25 miles into the ride I clicked into Neutral at another stop and the familiar green N popped up and appears it is here to stay. While I have not compared the speed to a GPS yet, it seems pretty close with the corresponding Tach readings. But I will compare and there is an adjustment if it needs to be done. I filled up on fuel and am following the directions to get the system to Learn the DTE calculation. I will most likely do the Learn 2 times just to make sure. Part way thru this 1st tank it does seem to be pretty accurate already. Note that the cruise control standby color is red as opposed to the familiar yellow in the stock gauges. It changes to Green when engaged. High beam is the same blue color we are used to. The check engine light is Red and it came on during my 1st ride. Bike was running fine but when I got home I went thru the diagnostics programming and took a pic of each the 2 error codes it was displaying. They were P0522 and U0156. I found the error codes on line and 1 of them was lost communication codes and the other was oil pressure sensor. After a little further research, it seems that changing gauges sometimes triggers 1 or more error codes. It was suggested to clear them and ride to see if they return. I cleared them and have ridden about 60 miles on 2 rides and they have not returned. Overall I am pretty happy with my purchase so far.

display looks great, easy to install and functions are easy to understand.

While they are expensive they do look nice. They can be very difficult to program and they require modules for certain things to be measured. These modules are not included. Be aware that the oil temp or pressure gauge not work if you have a legends air ride suspension installed. They mount the compressor in from of the drain plug and it will not clear the compressor.

Old HD system was losing sound, NOT power just sound. I did have an AMP installed so I by-passed that went straight to speakers. Still lost sound. Read forums after forums, most said that these HD stereos did this. I found a site that would repair this issue, low and behold they were ex Harman employees that knew the issue. I chose to go with a Sony system and I like it very much. However I did not have an oil pressure reading any more, just an idiot light. Did not like this at all. I spoke with Dakota Digital and was surprised at the outstand and prompt responses from this company, any way I was informed that these gauges did have oil pressure. I did not see it listed, so contacting the company was a must. I received the gauges installed them (easy) and now I have my oil pressure on the left gauge and soooooo much more. Very happy I went with these gauges. On the fence, get off and buy them, you will not be unsatisfied. You will be blown away. Great Company.

These are super nice and the install took me little over an hour. 7 fairing screws, 9 screws on bracket above the radio and the 9 screws for the two gauges and spedo tach cluster. I did not install the oil temp switch because i have air shocks and the compressor is in the way and ill need some sort of adapter or rerouting to get it properly installed. I figure it would take 30 minutes to run temp sensor wire and install sensor. Followed the setup instructions and everything worked as it should. Hard part is deciding what you want to show on the gauges and what color themes to go with. 5 stars Dakota digital. Great product.