Complete battery failure

[Tridentested]

Hi everyone, just been out to check over my 1300gs ready for a trip abroad on Sunday to find the battery totally dead. No volts at all with my voltmeter and doesn't want to charge. I suspect I can source another battery over the next couple of days but concerned as to what has caused this. Battery was fine a week ago. If it has just given up the ghost then fair enough but what if an electrical fault is there ready to do the same to the new battery?
Any ideas?

 

[Tridentested]

Hi everyone, just been out to check over my 1300gs ready for a trip abroad on Sunday to find the battery totally dead. No volts at all with my voltmeter and doesn't want to charge. I suspect I can source another battery over the next couple of days but concerned as to what has caused this. Battery was fine a week ago. If it has just given up the ghost then fair enough but what if an electrical fault is there ready to do the same to the new battery?
Any ideas?

Update: After watching a couple of helpful you tube videos, perseverence with an old battery charger managed to wake up the battery and now transferred to my Optimate 4 and hopefully charged by tommorrow. Still a mystery as to why it went down in the first place.

 

[stever1]

Does the bike have a tracker or alarm ?

 

[Martin GSA UK]

The early 1300GS's had a software update required to correct some battery discharge issue (I think I saw it on "Nothing to Prove" YouTube). IIRC, something to do with not everything shutting down every time the bike was switched off. May be wrong on my recollection of the last point.

 

[Smartbazza]

Martin”s correct. My first 13 discharged the battery fully after I rode it home and plugged it into the Optimate.

Barry

 

[Santa-2512]

It's the gentle/ polite way to tell you your battery is fucked. Get a new one sooner rather than later

IE tomorrow or Saturday!!!

Don't say you weren't warned

Especially if you choose not to and you break down

 

[TaskMule]

Any battery that reads zero volts on a volt meter is likely to never be trusted