1 Intermittent cut outs Tue Mar 29, 2016 6:12 pm
Beamer
Platinum member
I have a K100 that sleeps outside.
I had it for several years with no problems but then it started having slight hesitations when running. I could just feel a slight irregularity sometimes like it was missing a spark from time to time.
Then sometimes it would just refuse to start. I'd start fiddling with everything electrical , pulling relays and fuses, unplugging/replugging all connectors, etc. This would go on for about 15min, then all a sudden it would be perfect again and I'm off. with no indication of what it was. It did not seem related to any of the contract related fiddles because I checked every time I did something and it remained dead.
It would then run fine for weeks or months then let me down again.
LIke all intermittent faults it would never be consistent enough for me to track down what was wrong. Then one day it dugs it heels in and never ran again.
This is a total NO firing situation, not even a pop. Zero combustion until it magically ran again for a while.
This seems to rule out the usual plugs / coils / Hall effect sensor type problems. It's all or nothing.
I need transport so when I found a K75 in the locals ads I bought it and put the K100 to be fixed 'later'. Now the 75 seems to be devoloping the same behaviour, so I need to resolve the problem before I have another bricked brick on my hands.
I'd actually rather get the K100 running again, I preferred it to ride.
Has anyone had everience of this problem. I guess I'm not just the unlucky one who has got K's both showing the same problem.
I had it for several years with no problems but then it started having slight hesitations when running. I could just feel a slight irregularity sometimes like it was missing a spark from time to time.
Then sometimes it would just refuse to start. I'd start fiddling with everything electrical , pulling relays and fuses, unplugging/replugging all connectors, etc. This would go on for about 15min, then all a sudden it would be perfect again and I'm off. with no indication of what it was. It did not seem related to any of the contract related fiddles because I checked every time I did something and it remained dead.
It would then run fine for weeks or months then let me down again.
LIke all intermittent faults it would never be consistent enough for me to track down what was wrong. Then one day it dugs it heels in and never ran again.
This is a total NO firing situation, not even a pop. Zero combustion until it magically ran again for a while.
This seems to rule out the usual plugs / coils / Hall effect sensor type problems. It's all or nothing.
I need transport so when I found a K75 in the locals ads I bought it and put the K100 to be fixed 'later'. Now the 75 seems to be devoloping the same behaviour, so I need to resolve the problem before I have another bricked brick on my hands.
I'd actually rather get the K100 running again, I preferred it to ride.
Has anyone had everience of this problem. I guess I'm not just the unlucky one who has got K's both showing the same problem.