HedonismBot
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Had the strangest thing happen out of the blue today. My wife and I took our 2012 RT-S SE5 with 1993 miles on it out to the Great River Road in Illinois. We were riding for about 3 hours total when on the way home hit a red light. When we took off and shifted into 2nd (28mph or so) there was a loud beep--even the wife heard it on the back. Every shift up through 5th came with the beep. I'd depress the shifter, a high pitched beep would happen and then the gear would happen normally--nothing strange. I downshift manually for the most part and each time it was the same as shifting up. This happened for the next 50 miles home without fail.
When we got home, I shifted into neutral and again a beep. From neutral, I kept downshifting thinking it was maybe the spring in the trigger needing a lube, but this wasn't the case--no beep. I dropped it into Reverse and beep. Neutral...beep....first beep. When I say beep it sounds very electronic like an error beep in Windows only higher-pitched but about the same duration. At first I thought it was the nanny pitching a fit but no error messages on the display and no limp mode.
Another weird this is that you can now hear a sorta static pop when you first engage the turn signals. It's never made that sound before and started at the same time as the shifting beep. The pop sounds like when you turn on a stereo and the speakers make a little pop or when you plug in your headphones. It doesn't do it when the light blinks only when you first engage the turn signal and I swear it sounds like it is coming from the speakers. The beep I can't tell for sure where it's coming from but it is definitely not the gear trigger.
The turn signal static pop made me thing it was some sort of ground loop type issue. Engaging the signal sends the electrical signal that maybe is loose and touching some part of the body resulting in the noise over the speakers? It seems suspicious the turn signal issue and the gear selector would both develop some sort of audio noise at the same time but the gear trigger won't cause the beep unless a gear actually changes. One other thing, even when the RT-S downshifts on its own, the beep happens. :dontknow:
Any ideas? Seem safe to ride? I plan on taking it in Tuesday but kinda wanted to ride tomorrow with the nice weather
When we got home, I shifted into neutral and again a beep. From neutral, I kept downshifting thinking it was maybe the spring in the trigger needing a lube, but this wasn't the case--no beep. I dropped it into Reverse and beep. Neutral...beep....first beep. When I say beep it sounds very electronic like an error beep in Windows only higher-pitched but about the same duration. At first I thought it was the nanny pitching a fit but no error messages on the display and no limp mode.
Another weird this is that you can now hear a sorta static pop when you first engage the turn signals. It's never made that sound before and started at the same time as the shifting beep. The pop sounds like when you turn on a stereo and the speakers make a little pop or when you plug in your headphones. It doesn't do it when the light blinks only when you first engage the turn signal and I swear it sounds like it is coming from the speakers. The beep I can't tell for sure where it's coming from but it is definitely not the gear trigger.
The turn signal static pop made me thing it was some sort of ground loop type issue. Engaging the signal sends the electrical signal that maybe is loose and touching some part of the body resulting in the noise over the speakers? It seems suspicious the turn signal issue and the gear selector would both develop some sort of audio noise at the same time but the gear trigger won't cause the beep unless a gear actually changes. One other thing, even when the RT-S downshifts on its own, the beep happens. :dontknow:
Any ideas? Seem safe to ride? I plan on taking it in Tuesday but kinda wanted to ride tomorrow with the nice weather
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