Have had a off road bike in my shop the last few days. The type of job the customer just knows everything. He has been working on this bike for weeks and he couldn't get it to fire once. This bike has a lot of electronics on it. He had the carburetor all apart and when putting it back together he had the electronic throttle control so far out of adjustment it was the reason it wouldn't fire once and broken O rings in the carburetor. So now I have it running but its backfiring and just running with no power. Now looking at the inner workings of this bike it looks like its been ridden in a lot of mud and water. Now this bike has a CDI ignition system, a power distribution module, speed limiter, pulse coil, remote ignition coil and a with a lot of wires going to them. I did find his problem called green and corroded wire connections. I am finding motorcycle are just trying to play catch up with cars when it comes to electronics and have a feeling in time lawn equipment is going to be there in the future. The future home owner will be forced into taking there mower to a over priced shop for repairs.
With people bypassing safety switches there's no telling. I'm sure some engineers will over complicate the simplest things. On some ATVs you need a $300 actuator and a $400 controller to go in 4wd however you can move it into 4wd with your pinky finger.
With people bypassing safety switches there's no telling. I'm sure some engineers will over complicate the simplest things. On some ATVs you need a $300 actuator and a $400 controller to go in 4wd however you can move it into 4wd with your pinky finger.
Look at all of the wires going to the hour meteres on most new mowers.
The mower companies are already factoring this in.
The controller will be in the hour meter.
Just think what a hour meter will cost when that happened. They call it a power distribution module on this bike at the cost of 200 dollars. Its the bikes brain.
We had a mates skid steer here for a while.
he said it needed an oil change and the service lamp was on.
We used it for 3 or 4 hours then it shut down.
It would start but only run a a slow speed and none of the hdraulics worked.
eventually we took it to a shop .
Apparently this had a smart meter on it and when regular services come up , it shuts down unless the dealer codes in that the service had been done.
So that type of control is out there.
This one was cancelled by a sequence of button pushing but it is not far from that to a plug in .
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BlazNT
My wife's civic has an error in the TPMS and the only way to clear it is to take it to dealer. $250 to reset them so the error goes away. Could there be a better way to make dealer money than that?
My wife's civic has an error in the TPMS and the only way to clear it is to take it to dealer. $250 to reset them so the error goes away. Could there be a better way to make dealer money than that?
You can find a well equipped independent auto repair shop that will do it for a lot less money
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BlazNT
I will look into that. I should not have to because a tire company moved one of my tires away from car for too long. It is just crazy. Fill the tire with air and all should be good. Can not remove them either.
You should be able to replace your TPMS sensors. Each sensor has a battery that can go out and that will illuminate the light on your dash. The Civic uses 315 MHZ sensors which run about $70 per wheel and most likely you've only got one that is bad. Most independent tire shops now have a scan tool and are able to identify which sensor(s) are bad. There are TPMS sensors on the market now that do not have to be programmed.
