Uh-Oh...

[Bob Denman]

:shocked: So I'm outside starting up my Spyder and once the fuse was lit, the engine just didn't settle down to a 1400 rpm idle. It felt "disconnected" from the throttle as I tried to rev it up to clear its throat... almost like a vacuum leak or something! As I started down the road it would rev and bog; THEN IT DIED as I manually downshifted into second gear! :yikes: Now I'm figuring out how to make a RH turn into a parking lot without killing the entire Town... that part worked out fine! :shocked:
Now it's stalled, I can't downshift into neutral and since the Parking brake won't engage I'm sounding like a phone company truck backing over a goat! I grab the toolkit... (those who know me know that this is when you go get a beer and pull up a lawnchair!)
Wrench in trembling hand, I stuff myself under the Spyder and try to find that shaft that you twist in order to downshift when your life has turned to :cus:... NO LUCK!
Well I turned it off and on a few times and then it started and sounded pretty good! (in first gear though...) I took it back to neutral, threw my tools and manuel back in the frunk and headed off... Running like a million bucks...
So what happened????? :shocked:
What should I tell the dealer as I cry into the phone??? :gaah:

 

[Phil]

Tell him you're an old angry man from NY and you want satisfaction NOW!!!!
:roflblack::roflblack:

 

[Bob Denman]

It doesn't work with my Missus though... why would it work with him?? :shocked:
:roflblack::thumbup:

 

[Roadkill]

Manuel, where'd you go?

threw my tools and manuel back in the frunk and headed off... Running like a million bucks...
So what happened?????

+Apparently, Manuel is happy in the frunk, especially with tools. (If I were tossed into a trunk, I'd want tools, too.)

btw, he wants to know why you took him out in the first place, and what did you do with his goat?

Ride on.
Roadkill

 

[ARtraveler]

It appears that :spyder2: can be a quirky machine at times. I have also had "weird" things happen. Shut it off, reboot, and its like nothing happened.

Too much technology??

 

[Bob Denman]

No Roger; no codes... But then I've never seen a code get thrown... what does that do to the display???
I told you; I backed over his goat with the Phone Company truck... AWFUL noise! :shocked: (I've got to proof-read a bit more...:gaah :roflblack:
You know how you stab the throttle and it just doesn't quite light the fire? You hit it again and let it grind until "pop goes the weasel" and you're off...
Mine was starting to not start that great and I was thinking about the threads involving spark plug changes... :yikes: This time, once it caught, it really seemed as if it might be running on one cylinder... there was a definite stutter and roughness as I tried to rev it to clean it out...

 

[Mr. White]

Bob, I am sorry to hear this problem. When my "check DPS" came on the orange screen, my odometer also turned orange with a :spyder2: logo flashing on for ten seconds, off for ten seconds and then back on for ten...etc, etc. My first thought when I saw this is that the fuse to the dynamite was lite and I had ten seconds to run.

I was 75 miles from home and 125 from my dealer (or any dealer) so I sat there a while, turned it on, all ran fine so I rode it home with the flashing odometer and orange screen off and on....dealer changed out my DPS sensor...no fun.

It rattled me.

 

[mooneych]

Throttle problems

I'm sure it has been discussed before, but doesn't the RT have a "fly by wire" throttle? If it does, I suspect a software glitch.

I may be wrong...

 

[Y Rider]

The MODE/SET/CANCEL buttons to show fault code only works on active faults. If your not to far from your dealer you may want to have them connect BUDS to it so they can recall the fault code history. May give them an idea of what happened.

 

[Bob Denman]

Thanks! I may take a run to them on Saturday if I can get out of hedge removal chores...

 

[JimAlpha]

Thanks! I may take a run to them on Saturday if I can get out of hedge removal chores...

Bob, I would recommend that you get your priorities in order... Spyder first, then ride, then have the wife do the hedges while you drink a cold beer :thumbup::roflblack:

 

[Bob Denman]

Thanks! Do you have a cemetery plot available for me to use?? :shocked: :roflblack:

 

[cyclekat]

Okay, I started reading this thread because I wanted to know how you handled the bad throttle problem, but now I'll have to keep reading for the humor! JimAlpha and Bob--you're cracking me up! :roflblack:

 

[IWN2RYD]

Bob...

Very unlikely that my suggestion is your issue, but I wanted to toss it out there.

We had really weird behaviors on our RT. Many of them once, a few over and over. Bottom line was the battery connections and one other connector was allowing the bike to under-perform one minute, and be great the next.

That said most of our issues went away once the Service Department found these and made the necessary repairs.

However, I wonder if BRP simply put to weak of a Magneto/Stator in these. I found if I trickle charge our Spyder overnight at least once a week it performs more constantly (In others words the way it should).

Yet if I do not, even just a week ago I had the DPS not work in a few corners, but no codes yet again. Had my Ipod start over to song #1, and forced a shut off re-start to allow me to drive normally again. Charged overnight... Works like a charm.

I have only added the few LED's up front this past weekend, the rear ones about a month ago, and I know that have hardly any draw at all. Other than that we are running all BRP stuff and can only conclude that the Magneto/Stator cannot keep up with power draw, or my charging system is just faulty somewhere...

Please note, we put no less than 50 miles a day on our RT a day, and usually go through no less than one tank of gas on the weekends. This is my daily commuter rain or shine. So a lot of stop and go, errands and such. This means a lot of braking, low RPM idling at a lot of signals and starting of the engine through these errands.

 

[Bob Denman]

Oh... I can assure you that I wasn't chuckling to myself yesterday afternoon! :shocked:
Today it's running like a champ and seems blissfully unaware of the spike in my blood pressure... :yikes: :gaah:

We DO like keeping things light around here!

 

[JimAlpha]

To: Bob
From: Wife of JimAlpha
Subject: Jim's Passing

I am newly single and JimAlpha is plant fertilizer now. You seem to be well trained. Are you housebroken too?

P.S. I like Blue RTs also.

 

[Campverdefela]

GHOST IN THE MACHINE

 

[ARtraveler]

I am noting a few posts now about a "ghost" problem. I wrote about it a couple of months earlier.

My :spyder2: has went funny on me 3 times now in the past 2 months.

Each time it felt like it was in 2nd or 3rd gear when I was starting out in 1st. The :spyder2: would shudder when starting and one time, had hardly any power. It would not speed up when I cranked the throttle.

Shutting off the :spyder2: and restarting it solved the problem all three times.

I have been lucky each time as all incidents happened within 5 miles of my home or the dealer. I am a bit scarred that it is going to happen a couple hundred miles from anything and leave me stranded.

I am beginning to think that there is a problem that needs to be addressed and fixed by BRP. (ARE YOU FOLKS FROM BRP LISTENING OR READING).

Sorry about the yelling! My dealer said he was going to talk with BRP tech. He had the same problem recently on a trip. Dealer put my Spyder on BUDS the first time, and there were no error codes.

If others are experiencing similar problems it might be good to post about it--so we can see what is happening.

 

[StanProff]

Reverse throttle lurching

New to Spyder, owned my RT S only a couple of weeks, had a great time at maggie valley. Weird thing has happened a couple of times after engaging reverse, the engine revs on it's own kinda like blipping the throttle when down shiftings. it will do it maybe three times or so then all is well. any ideas?

 

[Bob Denman]

To: Bob
From: Wife of JimAlpha
Subject: Jim's Passing

I am newly single and JimAlpha is plant fertilizer now. You seem to be well trained. Are you housebroken too?

P.S. I like Blue RTs also.

Well I don't blow my nose on the curtains anymore... does that count??:roflblack::shocked: