Well, pretty sure I've blown the ACS (won't hold air). Have a call into the dealer, but in the meantime, do any of you tech wizards know:
1) how difficult it is for it to be replaced i.e. is it a leave it at the dealer (for days) OR quick enough to sit and wait for it; AND
2) assuming it's safe in the meantime to ride 2-up without hurting anything else in the rear suspension or rear tire??
Thanks in advance
JPJ
I doubt very much that the answer to
1) will be '
sit and wait for it', simply because they will likely need to remove
ALL of the RH Side pannier assembly & tupperware, and quite possibly, the rear tire too!! So at best, by the time they've taken off everything that needs to come off; replaced all the old stuff & tested all the new stuff; and then put all the tupperware & wheel etc back on; that's gonna have taken
ALL DAY!!
Remember, I wrote '
AT BEST', meaning that might happen
IF it's all done by a skilled and competent tech who knows how to do the job;
IF said tech has a good work ethic;
IF said tech has done it before; and
IF said tech has all the correct and necessary replacement parts on hand;
AND even then,
IF all of those new parts work as intended!! That's a lotta '
IF's' that need to miraculously occur all at the same time, and you also need to remember that you're talking about taking it to a BRP Dealer, so you should know that there's very few of those ^ techs to be found anywhere; let alone finding any dealers who can manage to get all the bits in before actually starting the job;
AND it's BRP parts you're talking about, meaning that the chances of all the new bits working as they should the first time round are pretty slim!! So you'd better resign yourself to leaving your Spyder with the dealer for some time! :banghead: I'd dearly love to be shown to be wrong on any of that, but I wouldn't risk any money on that happening!
As for
2), that sorta depends on how much load you put on your Spyder; and also possibly on what size rear tire you're running ... :dontknow: The rear shock/coil assembly is simply
NOT capable of carrying anything much more than a light load and
just a (not too big
) rider without assistance from the air bag to maintain sufficient ride height, as it was designed/intended to do!! That inability to carry the load without assistance from the air bag is made more likely if you're a bit on the bigger/heavier side than the average smaller/lightweight rider; if you generally ride 2-up/with a pillion &/or fully loaded; or if you're running a larger rolling diameter tire like so many of us do - the larger the rolling diameter of your tire, the more likely you are to find the underside of the wheel arch hitting on the top of the wheel during use!
Good Luck! :cheers:
Ps: are you sure it's not just the Height Sensor arm is disconnected, or maybe the bracket the sensor is on has been bent so that the sensor is reading the height to be much higher than it should be?? That's all happened before, and for the latter, the opposite of 'too high' too - regardless of which way it's reading, up or down, going to the extremity either way really doesn't make for a comfortable ride! :lecturef_smilie:
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