Does anubody know what this socket is for ?

[roddy]

An R1150GSA (04 plate)

Does anybody know what this plug in the pics is for ? it's on the RHS as you sit on the bike above the rear footpeg under the seat rail.
it seems to be a factory fit as it goes into the fuse box, can't check for power to it at the moment as the batterys have died in my DVM

Here a couple of pics of the curious item, Cheers

 

[JoeC]

I think in previous postings people have said that it is for extra emissions control for California? (or something like that).

 

[motobiker]

I think in previous postings people have said that it is for extra emissions control for California? (or something like that).

I think so too. my 1100 has exactly the same socket sitting tucked away there.

 

[Sunny Jim]

I thought it was for the spanner man to plug his 'puter to when servicing ???

 

[roddy]

I think in previous postings people have said that it is for extra emissions control for California? (or something like that).

I thought that was a carbon can, for fuel vapours ?

I thought it was for the spanner man to plug his 'puter to when servicing ???

is that not the round plug on top of the airbox ?

 

[dancata]

Could it be the connector for a potentiometer that you adjust the CO if the bike did not have a lambda probe, or if you wabt to switch from the lambda probe to a pot?

 

[roddy]

Could it be the connector for a potentiometer that you adjust the CO if the bike did not have a lambda probe, or if you wabt to switch from the lambda probe to a pot?

as far as I know all 1150 have a lambda probe and don't and can't use a CO pot as per the 1100 ?

 

[Larne]

No idea what it is for but interesting to see the question asked as I have just found what appears to be an identical connector at the front of my 2010 1200GS.

 

[motobiker]

My bike had a lamda probe.. it was originally a German import 1100 with a CAT.. And very oddly also has a CO Pot in the normal place. This socket is in addition to that and has nothing to do with it.

 

[roddy]

My bike had a lamda probe.. it was originally a German import 1100 with a CAT.. And very oddly also has a CO Pot in the normal place. This socket is in addition to that and has nothing to do with it.

I think the last of the 1100 had this odd arrangement as my '99 1100GS had the same arrangement and as far as I now it wasn't an import ?

Anyway plugs been there for 6 years and the bike runs fine so it's obviously nowt to be concerned about

cheers for the replys anyway