23-11-14, 08:02 AM
Hi All
Had my Fazer for 12 yrs now from new and its never let me down, to be fair I don't use it that much but when I do, I do!
Been following the threads about the Meta357T knowing that one day its going to happen to me.
Well guess what! Not used the bike for the last 4 months so thought I would just check everything was OK battery wise as I leave mine on the Optimate.
Ignition on, fuel pump buzzing away nicely as you would expect but no action from the key fob, funny I thought and then nothing when starter pressed. I could see the battery was fine as I was getting 12.9v from the multiguage lights came on bright and a manual check across the terminals confirmed this.
Yes, it must be the Meta then. Being a bit cautious about bridging/cutting wires and stuff I had another search and found that someone had removed their negative battery terminal for 10 mins and reconnected it to reset something. Thought to myself, why not give this a try. Sure enough when I reconnected I heard some feint sounds and she fired into life without touching the key fob. Result!!!
I thought that after 20 mins or so the alarm may re-set itself and I would be back to square one. But no, I have tried several more times over the last few days and the alarm seems to have died in an unarmed state. Making the key fob redundant. Could that be so?
If not, I am now confident to use the bridging technique above should I need to.
I know you will all say, why not do it now but I just wanted to see what happens.
Hope the negative battery bit might get someone out of a quick jam like mine did.
Regards
Steve
Had my Fazer for 12 yrs now from new and its never let me down, to be fair I don't use it that much but when I do, I do!
Been following the threads about the Meta357T knowing that one day its going to happen to me.
Well guess what! Not used the bike for the last 4 months so thought I would just check everything was OK battery wise as I leave mine on the Optimate.
Ignition on, fuel pump buzzing away nicely as you would expect but no action from the key fob, funny I thought and then nothing when starter pressed. I could see the battery was fine as I was getting 12.9v from the multiguage lights came on bright and a manual check across the terminals confirmed this.
Yes, it must be the Meta then. Being a bit cautious about bridging/cutting wires and stuff I had another search and found that someone had removed their negative battery terminal for 10 mins and reconnected it to reset something. Thought to myself, why not give this a try. Sure enough when I reconnected I heard some feint sounds and she fired into life without touching the key fob. Result!!!
I thought that after 20 mins or so the alarm may re-set itself and I would be back to square one. But no, I have tried several more times over the last few days and the alarm seems to have died in an unarmed state. Making the key fob redundant. Could that be so?
If not, I am now confident to use the bridging technique above should I need to.
I know you will all say, why not do it now but I just wanted to see what happens.
Hope the negative battery bit might get someone out of a quick jam like mine did.
Regards
Steve