Hi my second post here is for some help
I have an FZ6, which has a flat battery
I have looked at the owners manual (rubbish)
However it looks like i would have to take the tank off to get to the battery? (that’s plain ridiculous)
I know nothing about bike mechanics
I think the battery is fine,
Came home on Tuesday and someone had kindly turned on my heated grips (thanks)
So i am assuming that is the problem
Is there some sort of mobile garage service that could help me?
I am not in the AA or anything like that
Any other suggestions to get it started, without major dismantling of the bike?
I have run up and down the road try to jump start it
Clearly i am rubbish at it, and very unfit:sick:
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I hope i have posted this in the right section, sorry if not
The grips will have flattened it, so you need to charge that battery. A trickle charge from an optimser (low power charger) is best. Taking the tank off isn’t that hard.
yeah mate, get yourself to a bike shop today and by a trickle charger. I think bike batteries are weaker than a car’s so I’d avoid buying one from say halfords unless 100% that it’ll do for smaller batteries.
If you need to take the tank off, well that’s a bugger - it was the same on my BM R1100s but when I had to call out the service people (it happens to us all when we’re new to it) they used long screwdrivers as conductors. Clip the charger leads to each screwdriver and then rest the flat edge on the appropriate terminal.
Dare say you’d have to be careful not to touch the tank or the charge might bleed off but hopefully someone else will advise.
Then, get the bike to a mechanic (doesn’t have to be the dealer) and have them attach the (usually supplied with charger) quick connect lead to the battery. This will leave a plug accessible ideally by just taking the seat off.
A heated anything will draw a huge amount of juice from a bike battery, so I’d suggest (again from my BMW days, that you even turn them off when sitting in traffic. Remember your lights will be on too - and bike batteries are only getting smaller and weaker in the strive to save weight and size.
Thank you for your replies and suggestions
I went and bought some jump leads
bit the bullet and done my first ever work on a bike! (the embarrassing bit comes later)
first the clever stuff!
I took off the fairing and the tank, (quite simple really:w00t:) got to the battery and jump started the fz6 from my yrb
now the embarrassing bit
I was not so clever when i put everything back together, i put 2 screws in the wrong place and could not work out why the left over screws would not go back in their holes:blush:
A trip to essential rubber sorted it out in about 60 seconds, i’ve used those guys a few times now, they a great, great advice, fantastic service, particularly good for fools like me
anyway all working fine now and all screws in the right holes, and a lesson learned
Thank you
Actually the day I bought my brand new fz6 s2 2 years ago, after leaving the dealer, 5kms later the battery died on the traffic lights. Thank god they arrived in 15 mins and replaced it on the spot.
but fit the charging cables that come with the charger so you dont have to strip the bike down again to get at the battery, no matter how easy it is…the cable will hang out of some suitable orificae and you can attach the charger whenever you get home or leave it for an extended period…the optimizers can be left on all the time, they dont cook the batteries like some of the basic chargers…
I had a battery go flat on my FZ6 when it was only about 6 months old. It was parked at a college all day and completely dead when I tried to go home. I managed to jump start it and got it checked out at my bike shop but everything was fine. I lost a little bit of confidence in it at first but it never missed a beat after that. It could have been Gremlins or maybe somebody messed with it. I’ll never know.PH
