Re: Rode Easy, put up slightly wet

[Robert Silas <robert.silas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A friend of mine's side stand folded up, but not enough to make the connection. All it needed was lubrication.
Bob Silas
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Minor, Bob 
  To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 3:41 PM
  Subject: RE: Rode Easy, put up slightly wet


  The first thing I would suspect is the side stand switch.

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-oilheads@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-oilheads@xxxxxxxxx] On
  Behalf Of Emoto
  Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 11:44 AM
  To: oilheads@xxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: Rode Easy, put up slightly wet

  Maybe he has a loose battery cable that is making intermittent
  contact; the washing could be just coincidental. Easy enough to check.

  Bob

  On 8/11/06, Patrick Coleman <pdcolema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  > My friend Greg just called with a problem with his '05 1200GS,
  non-ABS. He took a short ride, came home, let it cool down, and then
  gave it a light bath. No pressure washer, just a garden hose and rags.
  Not a deep cleaning, just a get the bugs off type of cleaning.
  >
  > Afterwards, the bike wouldn't start. Key on, things lit up more or
  less normally, but when he hit the starter, there was one click, and
  then nothing. The battery tested good, horn works, he didn't really
  check anything else like brake lights, turn signals, etc. Sometimes,
  when he turned on the key, there wouldn't even be the one click when he
  hit the starter.
  >
  > After letting the bike dry out for about an hour, it started and ran
  fine.
  >
  > Any ideas? Without other guidance, he's going to wet down the starter
  button area and see if it happens again. If not, then he'll wet down the
  ignition switch area, and so on until it happens again, then
  troubleshoot that area.
  >
  > Greg is a way more than adequate bike mechanic, but this is his first
  BMW, and he's only had it about 3 months.
  >
  >
  > Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.


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