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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
2005 Windveil Blue Premium Mustang Convertible
2008 Honda GL1800/California Sidecar Trike, SOLD
2014 Platinum Silver Satin Spyder RTL, SOLD
Semper Fi
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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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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.
2017 F3T-SM6 Squared Away Mirror Wedgies & Alignment
2014 RTS-SM6 123,600 miles Sold 11/2017
2014 RTL-SE6 8,600 miles
2011 RTS-SM5 5,000 miles
2013 RTS-SM5 burned up with 13,200 miles in 13 weeks
2010 RTS-SM5 59,148 miles
2010 RT- 622
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2013 STL SE5 BLACK CURRANT
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T r * * LED:foam grip covers, Tricrings, FenderZ,
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Lid lox
KradelLock
Pakitrack
GENSSI ELITE LED H4 headlights
FLO (Frunk Lid Organizer)
BRP fog lights, trailer hitch
SENA 20S EVO
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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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