Yes it's fuse #3 and it is good. It was 27° when it stopped working. I've had it in colder. Yes I have a cement floor and it's messed up. Not too keen on riding it at 60 mph for 50 miles. But it does steer, sort of. Any thoughts out there on doing the ride to the dealer? My wife, who would have to follow me, is all no, no, no.
I've found that the DPS cutting in and out erratically &/or at random has sometimes (often??) been due to a poor or faulty earth connection to/from the battery, often the big main earth that's on the end of the cable leading directly from the negative terminal on the battery to a bolt on the frame located down by the DPS in the 'tunnel' between the wheels/behind the battery.
If the DPS has died completely, or if it's pulling off to one side or the other
ALL the time, then yeah, it
can be a fault in the DPS &/or the Steering angle sensor etc, but that '
now it works, now it doesn't' stuff often enough comes back to just being as a result of a dodgy earth. This is especially so if you've replaced &/or moved the battery lately, or even just ridden on a rough road or played around with that earth cable leading back from the battery - and if any of those apply, it's usually the main earth that's closest to the DPS not being good. So make sure to carefully check the earths, especially the other end of that cable running directly from the negative battery terminal to where it's bolted to the frame by the DPS unit as mentioned above.
Just note that, aside from just '
loose/not tight or clean' type poor earths, I've found a quite a few Spyders now, particularly pre-2018 models, where the lug that gets bolted to the frame might
seem to be tightly affixed to a good clean patch of frame with good connection, but the lug itself isn't all that well secured onto the end of the cable... Apparently, that lug isn't always really well crimped &/or soldered onto the end of the cable from the factory. So if that earth cable gets moved much/often &/or vibrates a lot, or if the cable has been moving around a bit as you've ridden/done other things, make sure that your poor earth isn't simply because the cable itself is only loosely connected inside the lug!!
If that's what it is, then it's generally an easy enough fix, especially if you crimp
AND solder the cable into the lug properly (it
is a bit of a pain reaching in to that 'tunnel' to do the crimping & soldering in situ once you've got the left side front wheel off, but it
is do-able without removing the cable entirely from the Spyder
) while the erratic kicking on/off halfway thru a corner, or 'assisting/not assisting' at random from the DPS can be a real pain and potentially quite dangerous; but I've seen a few Spyders now where our local (and not so great) dealer has replaced the DPS at a significant cost to the owner on the strength of those symptoms, only to have the same problem recur almost immediately, and then keep on doing so until that lug eventually gets fixed onto the cable properly!! You'd think their techs would learn about this issue, or at least that there's some record kept of things like that so they are checked before telling the owner they need to fit a new DPS, but apparently our local dealer doesn't keep techs who learn about any of this stuff for all that long
- or maybe the dealer is deliberately pushing the DPS replacement as their preferred first fix option to maximise their income?!
