Evening everyone...
I'm new to the forum, I've been a member a few weeks but this is my first post. I've noticed the Max doesn't like starting on cold days and its a bit of an effort to get her going but she always starts. Anyway, today I got stuck in heavy traffic and the temp gauge started to shoot up, to combat this I turned the engine off and waited for the traffic to start moving. When it did, I turned the ignition on, the fuel pump and v boost system made its usual noises and the fan kicked in, when I pressed the start button it sounded as if the battery was dead... Is this usual for vmaxs on a hot start, I figured there wasn't enough juice in the battery as it was powering the fan as well as the lights, but surely there should be enough voltage in the battery to start the bike when this situation occurs? I haven't checked the voltage yet, I'll be doing that tomorrow, I'll do a load test aswell and make sure that the voltage is high enough but I suspect either a dead battery or a dodgy altenator. Fingers crossed its the battery!! I might be wrong and this could just be a quirk of V-maxs, if someone could clarify I'd be very grateful
The bikes a 1998 Vmax with just over 17k on the clock.
Cheers everyone
Ploughy
I'm new to the forum, I've been a member a few weeks but this is my first post. I've noticed the Max doesn't like starting on cold days and its a bit of an effort to get her going but she always starts. Anyway, today I got stuck in heavy traffic and the temp gauge started to shoot up, to combat this I turned the engine off and waited for the traffic to start moving. When it did, I turned the ignition on, the fuel pump and v boost system made its usual noises and the fan kicked in, when I pressed the start button it sounded as if the battery was dead... Is this usual for vmaxs on a hot start, I figured there wasn't enough juice in the battery as it was powering the fan as well as the lights, but surely there should be enough voltage in the battery to start the bike when this situation occurs? I haven't checked the voltage yet, I'll be doing that tomorrow, I'll do a load test aswell and make sure that the voltage is high enough but I suspect either a dead battery or a dodgy altenator. Fingers crossed its the battery!! I might be wrong and this could just be a quirk of V-maxs, if someone could clarify I'd be very grateful
The bikes a 1998 Vmax with just over 17k on the clock.
Cheers everyone
Ploughy