| Author | Message | ||
     Snp304 |
ok, 09 1125CR, has been sitting for a little more than a year, life taken over etc...just replaced the weeping slave cylinder. Put the battery on tender as it was dead. Now when I turn the key on Theft Error shows on instrument cluster. Bike ran fine before its long dormant stage. Could it possibly be just a dead battery? I looked through the manual and it looks like the only things that cause a theft error are a can bus problem or mismatched vin between the ecm and instrument cluster. Thoughts???? thanks in advance | ||
| Bman12r |
My experiences with my 08 1125r are that these bikes are very sensitive to proper voltage and a good battery. Or at least my bike is. I would suggest a new battery first. Hopefully, the ECM will self correct itself. I am by no means an expert, but hope this helps. Please let us know what fixed your problem. | ||
| Snp304 |
at this point, pretty confident that it is the battery. I connected a pair of jumper cables to my car battery, with the car off. Just so I could have 12 volts going to the Buell battery, turned the key on and the theft error was off, instrument cluster was normal, mileage etc...Now I gotta get a battery, any certain batteries recommended? | ||
| Ceejay |
I’ve been through two lead acids in six years of ownership and only 8k miles. Similarly, I just got my bike back together after a year and a half downtime and life in general not allowing for a lot of riding time. I switched to a shorai and couldn’t be happier. Granted I’ve only just put about 100 miles on it, but LAs with only ~ 200 CCA they seemed to have a lot of trouble kicking those big cylinders over and size constraints won’t allow for a bigger LA battery. The shorai has 270 CCA and now the bike starts much easier and as I was monitoring the Voltage via the dash always was running above 13.5v and often at around 14.1. Some of that could very well be attributable to my paying attention to the connections better though as there is much more room to get all the wiring in a good position. I imagine that any of the lithium ion batteries with a better CCA will perform well, and I was originally going to go with a bigger than is suggested size case but shorai is the one I ended up with based on cost/reputation. | ||
| Bman12r |
I agree. The lithium batteries are great. Much, much lighter. Easy to install because they're smaller. Easy to manipulate wiring, etc. Bike cranks over faster. Much better electricals.. But, keep it on a charger if not riding frequently. | ||
| Shoggin |
I agree about using a Li-Ion but the same universal battery rules apply. NEVER buy a cheap one  | ||
| Tribalreaper |
Li-ion are nice , but loose power when the temp gets cold. | ||
| Shoggin |
^^^^^^ near freezing... and solved by counterintuitively turning on the headlights for a minute or so before starting, as the instructions say. | ||
| Bubba_ |
Antigravity ATX12-16 been good to me (not very cheap) haven't had cold weather issues with it, - in Central Texas easy fit 1 thing - make sure you understand which side you want +/- poles on - I didn't lol | ||
| Stimbrell |
I am trying a JMT Lithium Ion YTX14AH-FP, cost me £110 ($143) JMT Lithium Ion are OEM for some KTMs. So far it has much improved starts from hot and the battery light which would light up with the dash on ask for pin for a few seconds when the fans were running after turning off or when I started the bike no longer lights up. Time will tell but so far so good. | ||
| Stimbrell |
Well an update, have not used the bike for four days and went to go out and... click, dead as a Dodo, so much for the claims of low discharge, four days for frack's sake. Will recharge and give it one more try before it goes back, lowest temp has been 5 degrees C. Not happy. | ||
| Shoggin |
The claim for "low discharge" is for the battery itself. It won't help you since your bike has a huge parasitic draw to kill a battery in 4 days. Charge the battery fully (NOT a 'tender' disconnect the negative and put a test light between the wire and terminal. if it turns on, you have a parasitic draw. Pulll and reface the fuses one at a time. Once the light goes out, THAT is the circuit to check for your draw. hope that helps! | ||
| Stimbrell |
I can leave the bike for weeks with the AGM battery and it will start fine so not the bike. Have put the AGM back in and the seller is accepting the return so I may ask for a replacement as it may be a one off faulty battery. Good info for checking for a draw, will note that for future use. (Message edited by stimbrell on November 07, 2020) |
