SE-5....FIRST TIME ISSUE / OCCURANCE.....HELP

[pro10is]

Mike, Whenever multiple unrelated codes are generated you have to strongly suspect a problem with the electrical system because if the voltage is low as read by the ECU diagnostics these codes will occur without anything else wrong. The first suspect is always the battery but you say you've checked that with the old oem battery. Still you could have two bad batteries, it happens. If this were my Spyder I would attach a good quality digital voltmeter (multimeter) to the battery terminals and watch it carefully when you try to start up the bike (if you don't have a good multimeter let me know, you could use mine). If the voltage drops to anything below 11.7 volts at any time I would suspect the battery is causing the issue. Next I would attach the voltmeter to the front fuse box to one of the fuses that has power all the time (you could also use the 12 volt power adapter if you have one). The point is to monitor the voltage thru the wiring harness and not just at the battery terminals where it will be at it's strongest. I would again carefully monitor the voltage when trying to start the bike. Again if it falls below 11.7 volts, even momentarily, suspect a problem.

Next I would carefully inspect all the ground terminals especially the one located on the chassis near the steering column on the left side (in the vicinity of the front fuse box underside). This ground terminal is key and sometimes the bolt/nut can be loose (it was on mine). Make sure it's really tight and that all the ground leads coming off of it are secure. Next check the ground terminal near the ignition coil (left side).

If you find nothing wrong with all of this pm me and we can go over other possible options.

 

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

UPDATE

Took a shot and changed out some RELAYS and so far it's running fine now on the ......................original OEM battery.......Mike

 

[Phyxius]

First, thanks to all who have responded :clap::thumbup: great people here ,Mike....now good news ...bad news!!!!!! IT STARTED....why is not known....all connections are clean and tight....OEM batt. is good and fully charged ( new battery dind't start it, the old one did, go figure ) ...When it did start ..Neutral came on immed.,,and the following CODES...VSS, ABS, & CHECK ENG........but not the DPS code which came on the other day...( thank God for smae favors )....I did the code check thing....Buuuuuut NO CODES showed.....turned spy off , then on, (not eng.running) still no codes, started eng. no codes ....I'm getting a LITTLE CRAZY with this....I have been in touch with the MASTER aka Scotty and am waiting on his thoughts......please keep your fingers and toes crossed for me :gaah: :agree: :thumbup: Mike

This sounds like what happened to me on the way to SF.

From MD to Cuba, MO I was fine. We were about 40 miles from SF, in the rain when the spyder flashed LIMP and then DPS. I pulled over, pulled the key, walked around. We started up again and got check engine, VSS, ABS, DPS. Saw 4 or 5 codes but it was pouring down rain so we didn't write them down.

Decided best bet was to hop on and see how it went. Pulled out into traffic all of those warnings flashed and everything was fine. I talked to Len at Pitbull, he said it may be a loose connection to the battery or something may have gotten wet. I kept an eye on it but everything was fine until Thursday when I had a little computer issue (screen would go on, show can-am, show check safety card warning then turn off - rinse and repeat). I drove up to Pitbull and made an appt. for Friday. But, everything was fine again. They hooked it up to BUDS and everything was fine, no codes. Knock on wood, it's been good since!