mop's bike is dead

[masterofpuppets]

Took my bike in to the dealer Sunday afternoon for the 5,000 service. Got the call this morning that she was done and ready to go. Went by on my lunch hour to go pick it up. Paid, got the bike, I was a happy boy. I cranked the bike and warmed up with no problems. I pulled out of the dealer and got caught at a light out front. When it went green I pulled away and the bike just started jumping like I took the clutch out to early. I pulled the clutch back in thinking "ok, I haven't been on it in 2 days so I can't be this rusty on the clutch".

When I pulled the clutch back in the bike went dead. I mean dead as a dornail dead. I looked at my gauges and everything went blank. No check engine light, no odo, and my gas gauge went from 3/4 of a tank right to 0. All dead. The bike wouldn't crank back up. I let it sit for a bit as I called the dealer and told them to come get me. I cranked the bike up, let it idle, ran it through the gas station parking lot I ran off into and it was just fine. I headed back to the dealer and BOOP it did it again as I pulled in. Same exact thing. I jumped off and kept the momentum and pushed the bike over to service.

It's now sitting back at the dealer and I'm back at work PISSED. I thought at first that they didn't re-wire my fuel management system right, like they crossed injector connections... but that wouldn't explain the entire electrical system dying. Now, thanks to some 1130cc members who have had this exact thing happen, I think it's battery related, a lose ground wire or something.

I'm so sick of Harley and their bull crap.

 

[Munch]

oooooo that SUCKS! hopefully its nothing expensive.

 

[Jubei]

Don't have a bike - but once I took my car in to have the body control module replaced and some chuckle head zapped something during the install. They fixed everything and let me have a loaner for a week. If they had billed me for what they screwed up it would have been about 3k in parts and labor. I got the new BCM, a new power-something-or-other, whole new AC system (clutch and compressor), new door locks, new computer and a new security interlock system. The few times that I've been back there, I have not seen that first tech... I wonder why that could be?

 

[Moose]

Just got my car back from being serviced at the dealer...I feel ya. I want a bike so bad.

 

[masterofpuppets]

Got her back. Was the fuel commander that magically crapped out from the time I dropped it off to the time I picked it up. I'm putting the exhaust back to stock, screw it.

I'll ride it, probably get pissed off at HD again soon, sell the thing around April, and get a CBR600RR.

 

[NeOfito]

Sorry about your bike. I know that is a service to mantain the warranty, but in my experience you must try to be as far as possible of the dealers. I hope that your bike "gets well" and enjoy again the road with her.

 

[GTI-Steve]

i find i get all my best results doing my own work if at all possible as i know when im screwing myself over

kick my own arse!

 

[masterofpuppets]

I do my own service, but the 5,000 requires some clutch service and I can't do that.

I'm now 100% convinced the stealership fried my fuel management system. There's no way it just 'dies'. But, of course, I can't prove it. Here's my plan though:

Put the exhaust back to stock in order to keep it in warranty so I can sell it under warranty sometime in the summer. Other than a K&N, every other mod I've done is cosmetic and all the parts are actually off other VROD models.

 

[GTI-Steve]

well the complaint to the shop manager should be it was working when it came in but then wouldnt make it down the block after

i see stealership all over this

vw dealers out here have been caught unhooking turbo cooling lines on mkiv models taken in for service
that can get spensive, thank got my warentee is out

 

[Blindsfell]

That is brutal man...... Too bad you can't like permanent ban people in real life.

 

[SubArtic]

Yeah...greedy companies just need to stop existing...and sorry mop about all that, I've had some experiences with stealerships before. The mechanics say we got a battery problem because it just dies on us, and so we buy a new battery. Car won't start, so we have to buy yet another battery. Upon further inspection turns out it was the alternator. So they run up a bill for an entire alternator but lo and behold turns out it was just the belt. I mean seriously you would hope these guys knew what they were doing instea dof tyring to milk you for all you're worth.

 

[masterofpuppets]

[quote1203483411=GTI-Steve]
well the complaint to the shop manager should be it was working when it came in but then wouldnt make it down the block after
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That's basically what I said. And they said "well, it is a 3rd party part and there's no way of knowing what's wrong with it".

Honda here I come.

 

[Barlim]

I had my first run-in with a "stealership" a few months back, when my perfectly good '99 Subaru Outback had its transmission start to die. I, naively, took it to the local subaru dealership and they came back with an estimate of $5000 to fix it. That seemed completely outrageous, so I took it to a shop down by my parents that they've used for years, and they spent weeks trying to fix it. They're good guys, but they aren't specialized in Subarus so they were stumped as to why putting another used transmission in it would give a computer error and basically wouldn't shift at all. Turns out that the '99's computer will only accept other '99 trannies, and because it was a sort of leap year in model designs, finding one of those is pretty difficult--even in Maine, where Subarus are probably the most common car (all-wheel driver for snow). I'm sure the stealership knew this all along, and that's one of the reasons they were estimating so much.

In the end I just traded it in for a newer used car.

I've always wanted a bike, but up here they're only usable for part of the year thanks to the colder climate.

 

[The Red Comet]

Sorry to hear about the bike, it looked really awesome from what I saw. I hope everything turns out for the best.

 

[MaD sKiLLz =FL=]

that sux

 

[Glitch]

I had this same problem in my truck, and yes, it's battery-related. Rather, electrical system-related and a PAIN to fix. Tough break, man.

 

[masterofpuppets]

After looking into it more....

When they hooked my fuel management device up they did NOT ground it and it went ape and died. Again, I can not prove this but it's the only way to explain the ENTIRE electrical system dying.

As mostly said; it's an electrical device. It's like walking into a room one day and a light bulb working and then have it not work the next day.

 

[Noobkiller]

[quote1203548340=Blindsfell]
That is brutal man...... Too bad you can't like permanent ban people in real life.
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You can ban them from life heh heh heh. Mop if your really mad by this just take the bike and beat them on the head with it