Got a swerve maybe DPS on 2013 RT

[bobnaquin]

Gee thanks for the well wishes:yikes:. I know it will not be repeatable I have 982 miles on it and it did it once. If it happens again it will be random. I have already talked to my tech( told me like a prostate cancer Dr. "watchful waiting") and my wife knows about it she was following me when it happened. She thought I was just changing lanes and that was about how gradual it was at 60 mph till I got it going straight again. Sorry Charlie she is in the will and 11 yrs younger than me. :lecturef_smilie:

Get it checked out. If it is the DPS problem it may not repeat for another 10,000 miles. That does not make the bike safe to ride. It can kill you and at the least it will scare the heck out of you.

I went through 3 DPS units on #610 in 45,000 miles. Eventually I had enough. I reported it to NHSTA, and sold the bike. Three months later I got the recall notice that BRP were changing out all of the DPS units on all of the produced bikes, about 15,000 then, as they had found the culprit. The description of the fault had something to do with dis-similar metals wearing a detent in the rotating power steering plate which pretty much made sense to me. Others here can give you the engineer version of what went wrong.

I have since bought another early RS, #104, it has had the DPS recall done and has behaved flawlessly for 17,000 miles. So maybe they got it right.

Get it checked out. I truly believe that early on a couple of people killed themselves because of this but it was attributed to operator error, bike design, yada yada yada. I suspect we will never know.

Good Luck.

 

[grumpybob]

Had that happen on my '09 after the DPS upgrade. No codes. Took it in to the dealer right away. Turned out to be corroded connectors. Had nothing to do with the DPS just the electrical connections. Cleaned the connectors di-electric grease and never happened again. Might be something to check out. I did ride in some very heavy rainstorms prior to my problem.

 

[Magdave]

FYI went to the dealer he took me into his Fortress of Solitude and let me watch him using BUDS. Geeze it looks like a Windows 3.0 program no wonder they don't want anyone to see it. :shocked: Any way no codes, calibration is dead nuts on and everything looks OK. I even got him to take the fender light wiring braces off of their Demo and put them on mine. They fired the guy who put mine together that explains a lot about all the small stuff I have had to fix. :thumbup:

 

[Bob Denman]

Chalk it up to your computerized systems having a mean sense of humor then! :thumbup:
(That's how I'm taking this past Saturday's code-throwing rant... )

 

[Catniption]

When was this recall?

I have a "check DPS" message that popped up last weekend and the check engine light is on. I rode it to an appointment, it was fine, got back on after an hour, got the message and light. It seemed to run same as usual, but I've had a hesitation and lurching issue for a while now. Steering was slightly stiff, but not bad.

So when was this recall? I have an '09 but don't remember getting a notice, although I purchased it in late '10. I wonder if it got fixed in the first place.

As the local dealership was not far away, I went there, but they only have one tech for Spyders and wouldn't even look at it. They told me it would be fine to ride the 30 miles home and to bring it back. I got home and called East Tennessee.

 

[Magdave]

I have a "check DPS" message that popped up last weekend and the check engine light is on. I rode it to an appointment, it was fine, got back on after an hour, got the message and light. It seemed to run same as usual, but I've had a hesitation and lurching issue for a while now. Steering was slightly stiff, but not bad.

So when was this recall? I have an '09 but don't remember getting a notice, although I purchased it in late '10. I wonder if it got fixed in the first place.

As the local dealership was not far away, I went there, but they only have one tech for Spyders and wouldn't even look at it. They told me it would be fine to ride the 30 miles home and to bring it back. I got home and called East Tennessee.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/11/nearly-10-000-can-am-spyders-recalled-over-faulty-steering/

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/owners...&searchCriteria.nhtsa_ids=09V162&refurl=email

Get your vin number ready and call a dealer they can tell you if it is recalled. If you live in Monks Corner Velocity MS is right down the road they can tell you. Or you can call Can Am customer service 1 (715) 848-4957 be ready to wait till someone picks up it may take 15min.