Hi all,
Can anyone help me please?!
I have recently purchased (a swap of sorts for my VW Up) a nice R1200GSA MU 2008 model. As was explained very clearly in the ad, the problem with the bike was its inability to hold a tickover when cold, until it warmed up a touch and everything became ‘as per normal’. So, I took the GS to my friendly mechanic on Monday, who did some resets but couldn’t find any relevant fault codes. I then rode another 20 trouble free miles, at which point the bike just died again, but this time whilst hot of course! I might add that she’s been running very well, or had been, whilst riding the 160 odd miles since I collected the bike from Cheltenham last Friday. Furthermore, I swapped the lambda sensors over from my 2007 bike this morning, but the issue persists. It starts on the button but after a few seconds gradually stops running, and with the added aspect of the engine dying whilst hot the other day too, I’m lost for ideas. Can anyone suggest a possible cure, or at least what I should be swapping over from the other bike to try and rule out some parts? When observing the colour of both lambda sensors today, one appeared very uniform ‘light grey’ but the other was a sort of grey with hints of brown! Thanks very much
Can anyone help me please?!
I have recently purchased (a swap of sorts for my VW Up) a nice R1200GSA MU 2008 model. As was explained very clearly in the ad, the problem with the bike was its inability to hold a tickover when cold, until it warmed up a touch and everything became ‘as per normal’. So, I took the GS to my friendly mechanic on Monday, who did some resets but couldn’t find any relevant fault codes. I then rode another 20 trouble free miles, at which point the bike just died again, but this time whilst hot of course! I might add that she’s been running very well, or had been, whilst riding the 160 odd miles since I collected the bike from Cheltenham last Friday. Furthermore, I swapped the lambda sensors over from my 2007 bike this morning, but the issue persists. It starts on the button but after a few seconds gradually stops running, and with the added aspect of the engine dying whilst hot the other day too, I’m lost for ideas. Can anyone suggest a possible cure, or at least what I should be swapping over from the other bike to try and rule out some parts? When observing the colour of both lambda sensors today, one appeared very uniform ‘light grey’ but the other was a sort of grey with hints of brown! Thanks very much