| Author | Message | ||
     Joescrambled |
As I was heading to work this morning, the bike up and quit, lost all power. I jiggled the key and was able to restart it. Anyone had a problem with their ignition being loose? | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I would check the wires behind the switch first. The wiring harnesses on these bikes are garbage. | ||
| Hughlysses |
The 2006 bikes had a lot of wiring harness issues; I think issues are pretty rare on the later bikes. Still, it wouldn't hurt to check. With the bike idling, turn the bars lock to lock, wiggle the exposed wires, etc. and see if you can make the bike die again. If it does, start tracing wires and look for a break. The ignition switch on my 2007 got wonky a few years ago. I'd turn the key to "on" and get nothing. Giggle the key a little and everything would start working. I pulled off the cowl and noticed a couple of small holes in the switch assembly. I took a can of aerosol tuner/contact cleaner and sprayed in the holes and in the key opening and worked the switch back and forth a few times. It's worked fine for ~5 years since. | ||
| Joescrambled |
Thanks Hugh, that is exactly what mine is doing. I'm guessing the vibration moved the key enough to kill it while riding. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Also be aware that the act of leaning forward to mess with the switch moves other parts of the bike as well, it shifts the seat points of contact, and changes the wire bundle contact point as it goes out from the flyscreen to go under the front frame. So check the most obvious first, the ignition switch. But it could be other chafe points. | ||
| Mark_weiss |
I did not have the bike shutting off, but I was losing my lights. Lots of fine grit inside the switch. It's kind of fiddly to take apart, but cleans up just fine. | ||
| Falloutnl |
Coincidentally, I had this problem on my X1 Lightning today as well. My dad and I solved the problem by sorta hotwiring the wires so that the parking setting would feed the ignition wire as well. (Jiggling the key did not fix the issues at all by the way.) | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
BTW, my 2008 has had many grounding and other wiring faults with the first being below 15,000 miles. Conversely, my X1 had its first wiring failure at 80,000 and it was just a fatigued high beam wire. Different suppliers for XB wires I'm thinking. |
