Dakota Digital Guages Your Motorcycle Reviews Discuss Dakota Digital Guages in the Harley Products & Services forums; After talking with the sales guys at Dakota Digital I purchased their 6 pac gauge kit for a Custom Bagger I'm building. I was told if I have any problem ...

[Gunnert]

After talking with the sales guys at Dakota Digital I purchased their 6 pac gauge kit for a Custom Bagger I'm building. I was told if I have any problem just to give a call and someone would walk me through the procedures.

First, if you buy these gauges you will probably need to call. The installation manuals leave a lot to be desired. I had to call three times, and each call was very unpleasant. Once was with a Tech that kept telling me how to connect a gauge function. I kept telling him I have MOTORCYCLE gauges. I finally gave up. Another call was about connecting the speedo and whether or not I could tee into a particular wire at the radio. After about 15 minutes, I asked if he had access to the wiring diagrams, he said yes, but not in front of him. After a pause I very politely apologized for asking him tech questions and for bothering him. I asked for SOMEONE that would help me. He said, "oh, that is my job..." and went and got the manual.

You know, these gauges are expensive. You'd at least think a company would would try to help. Not this one. Dakota Digital, you won't get very many recommendations from me for your products, I don't care how good they are. If I could, I would return the gauges, but I'm stuck, and I'll do my best to let others know....

[Rickr0]

Thats interesting as I had just the opposite experience, although it was from the custom gauge dept. of the business. The tech built me a gas gauge for my stock cup and sending unit on a 98 FXD. Had a bit of trouble getting it to work first time around so I sent it back and they picked up the tab and modified it again and even bought me a new bezel that was damaged while I was attempting to get the gauge back out of the sender a second time, my own fault. I found the experience top notch. Again, this was a different dept. The Dakota Digital Custom dept. Did deal with the original sales folks to get there though and that was good to.

[newstyles]

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