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    Default A nervous 30 minutes........

    Burned out another headlite bulb yesterday sometime on my 300 mile ride. Anyway, I was not looking forward to changing it as I recall the last time how much of a PITA it was working within that tiny cramped area just behind the headlamp panel.

    So, I get my new bulbs and proceed to the task at hand, cursing those dang BRP engineers who made the job so hard. I finally finished and turned the key to check if they were functioning again, and - no gauge cluster, and headlites that would not change from low to high, just stuck on one level of light. Bike started up and all other lites worked, but nothing else would function.

    Got out the manual and dug into the fuse boxes looking for a culprit but could find none that had blown. There was an odd instance when I plugged back in the low beam fuse that the 4-way flashers started going off by themselves. Actually happened twice. I kept pulling fuses and testing everything again, but there was no change. Pulled the key out a few times and that did nothing. So, I sat on my stool and pondered my next move and invented more curse words of anger toward those engineers at BRP.

    Must of sat there 5 minutes and tried one more time, and lo and behold, everything started back up normally. No problems. Did about 7 more starts as I was cleaning up my tools and stuff and had no further issues.

    Felt like having a cold one about then, but I had stopped drinking about 6 weeks ago, so had to have a seltzer water instead.

    Getting too old for all this excitement..........
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    Don't ya just love those electrical gremlins? They just hide and laugh at you until they get tired and give up (sometimes)..... Jim
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    Is it related to the CANbus system? Such that (like many computerized systems) it had to take a deep breath and reset completely after a disturbance?
    Hoping that's it, and not just some gremlin which could come back at an inopportune moment.

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    Default Ahhh yes...!!

    Those are the glitches I so often refer to... like a traffic jam that clears and you never know why it happened
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    ST, RS and base F3 all are on my list of headlights I refuse to change! I can change headlights on RT and F3T/F3Ltd in 1/2 hour and I don’t draw blood doing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SpyderAnn01 View Post
    ST, RS and base F3 all are on my list of headlights I refuse to change! I can change headlights on RT and F3T/F3Ltd in 1/2 hour and I don’t draw blood doing it.
    know your hands have to be smaller than mine, & I have managed the bulbs on ST few times now, cramped& contorted not injured, last set was to LEDs should last longer do you know what part got you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bfromla View Post
    know your hands have to be smaller than mine, & I have managed the bulbs on ST few times now, cramped& contorted not injured, last set was to LEDs should last longer do you know what part got you?
    I put back in the basic bulb types, no LED's. Just seems my hands and fingers aren't as nimble as before, so twisting and pulling becomes more difficult. The metal clips holding in the bulbs appear to "pinch" the base of the rubber boot that slides over the base of the bulb. Plus, the inside of the boot on the inside has ridges molded in it, so when you pull at it, it does not want to slide off very easy. The metal clips are supposed to be one-handed two finger job to unclip them, but I had to use a long screwdriver to poke and prod each side of the clip to release them. Same with trying to re-clip them.

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    I swore the last time that I had to change the headlight bulb in my RTL, that would rather sell it than do it again.
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