Graphicjunkie
Scooter
hey everyone. Been a while since I've been on the forum. Blew me away that i had to completely re-register.
Odd thing happened to me yesterday. I rode to work, bike worked fine. I parked the bike at the office and locked the steering.
I came out to go home, and the bike wouldn't start. It would respond to the keypress, cycle the gauges, and when I hit the start button, the whole gauge panel would go blank. Then the oil light would barely flicker for a minute. Then everything would reset.
I did this for a few minutes and then it gave me immobilizer error. I hit the buttons and that gave me code 37. Turns out that this is an error with the steering lock. Local stealership was worthless with advice. The guy tells me this, but sits there like gomer pile on the phone saying that it doesn't tell what's to do next. NICE. But then as we are talking and working, it seems to be the battery is getting weaker and weaker.
So I decide to jump start the bike. I get a friend with some cables, and we jump the bike. (For those of you that don't know, this is fine to do as long as you don't have the source vehicle running as that is too much juice.) The bike functions just fine and starts.
But as soon as I take the cables from the battery, the bike dies....HMMM..
So we do it again, and once again it starts just fine and runs great while connected. I hold the RPM's about 1000 for a minute thinking that the battery was just really low for some reason and needed to just charge for a minute. Then I pull the cables. It isn't able to maintain RPM's and stumbles and dies. So I'm guessing that the code 37 is thrown because the system didn't have the juice to unlock the bars at first, but isn't actually the correct code. Ironically, the system still isn't throwing any other code.
I only have 7K miles on my bike. I'm having a hard time believing that the alternator/stator is bad already, but guessing that this is the case. Now I get to have the fun of towing my bike 70 miles back to my house so that I can work on it. The stealership wants 130 to tow, and then something similar to do the original diag.
Has anyone else dealt with this kind of thing? Any suggestions?
Odd thing happened to me yesterday. I rode to work, bike worked fine. I parked the bike at the office and locked the steering.
I came out to go home, and the bike wouldn't start. It would respond to the keypress, cycle the gauges, and when I hit the start button, the whole gauge panel would go blank. Then the oil light would barely flicker for a minute. Then everything would reset.
I did this for a few minutes and then it gave me immobilizer error. I hit the buttons and that gave me code 37. Turns out that this is an error with the steering lock. Local stealership was worthless with advice. The guy tells me this, but sits there like gomer pile on the phone saying that it doesn't tell what's to do next. NICE. But then as we are talking and working, it seems to be the battery is getting weaker and weaker.
So I decide to jump start the bike. I get a friend with some cables, and we jump the bike. (For those of you that don't know, this is fine to do as long as you don't have the source vehicle running as that is too much juice.) The bike functions just fine and starts.
But as soon as I take the cables from the battery, the bike dies....HMMM..
So we do it again, and once again it starts just fine and runs great while connected. I hold the RPM's about 1000 for a minute thinking that the battery was just really low for some reason and needed to just charge for a minute. Then I pull the cables. It isn't able to maintain RPM's and stumbles and dies. So I'm guessing that the code 37 is thrown because the system didn't have the juice to unlock the bars at first, but isn't actually the correct code. Ironically, the system still isn't throwing any other code.
I only have 7K miles on my bike. I'm having a hard time believing that the alternator/stator is bad already, but guessing that this is the case. Now I get to have the fun of towing my bike 70 miles back to my house so that I can work on it. The stealership wants 130 to tow, and then something similar to do the original diag.
Has anyone else dealt with this kind of thing? Any suggestions?