Starting problems

[BoilerUp!]

Bought a 2011 RTS SM5 in late february. First week of April my wife went to take her motorcycle endosrment about 1800 mile on Spyder. Getting on an off the bike she thinks she left the key on witch we think might off ran down the battery an the Spyder wouldn't start. Everything would come on like normal, it would try to start but the screen went white an then recycle itself back to the starting point each time. We jump started it an it fired up. I road it for awhile. Seem like everything was ok. We took a weekend trip with no problems. We have almost 3000 mile on Spyder now an then yesturday made three stops an the last stop same thing. Had to jump start, an now its the only way we can start it. I check battery connection are good. the one at fuse box is good. Any ideal would be most apprecited.

 

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: Discharging the battery to too low of a level can damage it... You might want to see if you can get it somewhere so that a shop can test it for you.
Good Luck and let us know what you find! :thumbup:

 

[napper39]

you need a bat.maintainer on all the time you are not riding it.get one at wallmart for around 20 doallers,save you a lot of head akes.these bikes seem to need full charged batters or all kind of bad things happen.i hope you didnt kill your battery from leaving the key on .hope this helps.:thumbup::chat:

 

[boborgera]

Bought a 2011 RTS SM5 in late february. First week of April my wife went to take her motorcycle endosrment about 1800 mile on Spyder. Getting on an off the bike she thinks she left the key on witch we think might off ran down the battery an the Spyder wouldn't start. Everything would come on like normal, it would try to start but the screen went white an then recycle itself back to the starting point each time. We jump started it an it fired up. I road it for awhile. Seem like everything was ok. We took a weekend trip with no problems. We have almost 3000 mile on Spyder now an then yesturday made three stops an the last stop same thing. Had to jump start, an now its the only way we can start it. I check battery connection are good. the one at fuse box is good. Any ideal would be most apprecited.

There were some defective batteries from the factory, You still might be in warranty, Either way get a new battery,
Just an after thought some batteries were going dead because of a bad radio [high draw] in warranty also.