I had to go to a customer site that is only 10 minutes from my house, so of course, take the Spyder they said. It'll be fun they said.
When my work was done, I went out to the parking lot to start her up. Turn the key, everything wakes up, all is normal, until click....and the instruments go dark, and I have no parking brake. I was on a gentle incline, so I finagled a way to chock a wheel while still on the brake.
So a loss of power that sudden and complete signaled to me that I had a fuse go out, or worse, an electronic module of some sort, with the wallet damage going up exponentially. Now as the regulars here know, I have only had this thing a month, a 2017 RTL with some miles on her. The guy I bought it from drove it 13 hours to deliver it to me. He had just bought a battery, and gave me the receipt for the warranty.
So I called the wife to bring the jumper cables. A brand new battery giving up the ghost suddenly is not likely, but I'm sure it happens. In the mean time, I started checking fuses, and all were good. When I clipped the jumper cable to the positive lead of my battery, everything came back to life! So I decided to remove the cable and everything was still alive!
So there was a connection that they didn't get tight enough when they replaced the battery. When I crammed my backpack with my laptop and tools in the frunk, I no doubt put enough pressure on the battery to loosen that connection just enough to disconnect everything. With that much current, just a small increase in resistance could be all it takes to shut her down.
I'm sure I tied a bunch of others for the cheapest fix in Spyder history! $0! Just passing this along for others to store in memory if anything like this happens to them. If it ever happens to me again, I know the first place I'm checking! :clap:
When my work was done, I went out to the parking lot to start her up. Turn the key, everything wakes up, all is normal, until click....and the instruments go dark, and I have no parking brake. I was on a gentle incline, so I finagled a way to chock a wheel while still on the brake.
So a loss of power that sudden and complete signaled to me that I had a fuse go out, or worse, an electronic module of some sort, with the wallet damage going up exponentially. Now as the regulars here know, I have only had this thing a month, a 2017 RTL with some miles on her. The guy I bought it from drove it 13 hours to deliver it to me. He had just bought a battery, and gave me the receipt for the warranty.
So I called the wife to bring the jumper cables. A brand new battery giving up the ghost suddenly is not likely, but I'm sure it happens. In the mean time, I started checking fuses, and all were good. When I clipped the jumper cable to the positive lead of my battery, everything came back to life! So I decided to remove the cable and everything was still alive!
So there was a connection that they didn't get tight enough when they replaced the battery. When I crammed my backpack with my laptop and tools in the frunk, I no doubt put enough pressure on the battery to loosen that connection just enough to disconnect everything. With that much current, just a small increase in resistance could be all it takes to shut her down.
I'm sure I tied a bunch of others for the cheapest fix in Spyder history! $0! Just passing this along for others to store in memory if anything like this happens to them. If it ever happens to me again, I know the first place I'm checking! :clap:
