Multistrada Dvt Additional Led Lights And Wiring

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At work now, PM you this evening

 

Do the OEM aux lights mount to the crash bars? Genuine question, as mine came with brackets to mount to the bike indepentantly. Maybe the OEM crash bars have specific mounting points? Aware that some aftermarket crash bars actually block the mounting of these. Guess that Ducati thought of this in the design of their own?

You'll also need to get your dealer to enable the aux lights for them to work. Either that or find a member local to you with an OBDStar tablet that's capable of doing this.

 

The OEM aux lights mount onto the frame above the radiator (using the same mounting point), this is true for all models however the brackets changed between the early 2010-2014 and DVT/1260 models.

The OEM aux lights for the early models (2010-2014, pre DVT) did not need to be enabled by the dealer as the loom plugged into the sat nav socket behind the left side panel and had a separate switch on the bars, with a indicator LED in this switch. It also had a socket so you could still plug in a sat nav.


The DVT and 1260 models (2015+) had a switch for the aux lights in the standard switchgear cluster and had a dedicated socket (under the left hand panel at the front of the tank). An indication that the lights were switched on came up on the standard dash screen. Because of the loom/screen/Can Bus integration, the later OEM aux lights had to be enabled by a dealer before they would work.


For all models the LED lamps (item 4 in the diagram above) were the same for all 1200 models. When the 1260 came out the LED lamps changed design (item 1 in diagram below) and were black rather than silver, I don't know if they would be interchangeable.

 

Comprehensive answer as always steveb123, plus fills in the holes in my answer regarding earlier Multistradas

I have a pair of the earlier 1200 aux lights on my 1260DVT and they work fine, so those are forwards compatible.

If the OP, who's asking about install on a DVT, needs these activated once he's sorted and finds himself in the Cheltenham area per chance, then I could enable them with my OBDStar if he can't find anyone local.

Some of the activations for the 2015-17 DVT were absent in the earlier OBDStar firmware. Oddly they were all there for the 1260DVT at the time. Though this was was rectified in a later firmware update. My update subscription ended mid last year. They've since improved the information to be more specific about activations and it's certainly included in the latest one according to the model and feature coverage spreadsheets that they provide (function/manual tab).

 

Annoyingly my OBD Star unit lacks the enable lights options for my 1200 DVT . I also ran out of updates last year. It seems I have limited options of buying a new unit, paying a dealer to enable, or leaving the lights (I have, but yet to fit) disabled

 

Where did you buy your ODBStar i-scan unit? I spoke to BMDiag this morning prompted by this post and the latest update (spreadsheet extract in my post above) showing specific items in terms of activations. To update my firmware for another 12 months for the unit is £75... Having said that it works for all required activations for the 1260DVT anyway, my last update was the 31st of May '23. So there seems little point in me paying to update it.

 

I just emailed Rob at BMDiag to ask exactly this question. Mine is a 1200DVT so its not listed in the available activations

 

But it is. According to the latest update (V31.91, from 30th Nov '23) the 2015-16 and 2016> 1200 Multis, which are DVT models, all list "Fog light enabling/disabling" under activations.

 

Not on my unit. I checked yesterday I am on this firmware and software version although I bought the unit in 2022. Last update in July 23

 

Apologies, I maybe wasn't clear enough. I too am on an earlier update. Until the most recent release the data in the spreadsheet wasn't that informative, just mentioning activations, not the specific ones you could carry out. The Nov 2023 release however does. So it's unclear what can or cannot be carried out in this regard without plugging into a bike a trying it out. I can't get deep into the options on the device without a bike connected, I assume yours works the same way?

I was lead to believe, though this is through hearsay, so I could well be misinformed, that the 1200DVT had caught up with the 1260 in regards to activations prior to the Nov '23 update. Without the required model to plug into I have no hard evidence.

 

Do you know if there is a way to select a different model to the one the unit thinks it is connected to?

Mine has only ever been connected to my own 2015 1200, but I did read somewhere that to do a service light reset on a 2016 DVT (which mine/ours will not do), then the Enduro model has to be selected and then the light can be reset?

I dont understand how a different model can be selected though? Mine only ever offers my specific bike? Have I missed something?

 

Think that I/we have drifted this thread seriously off course so I've started a new OBDStar specific thread with a reply to your post here.

Apologies to the OP, hope that you get your aux lights sorted out.