Heated Grips.....TOO HOT

[M30SJM]

Hiya chaps,

does anyone else find the OEM heated grips too hot even on number 1? I have a 2016 TB, and find when riding with my 3 season gloves on, i'm constantly turning the grips off then back on a couple of minutes later, or taking my hands off the grips and holding them in the airstream till they cool off.
Does anyone know of a way to turn them down slightly, either in the bikes settings, or maybe with a plug in resistor? not sure if the canbus would tolerate this tho.

Stu

 

[Santa-2512]

Hiya chaps,

does anyone else find the OEM heated grips too hot even on number 1? I have a 2016 TB, and find when riding with my 3 season gloves on, i'm constantly turning the grips off then back on a couple of minutes later, or taking my hands off the grips and holding them in the airstream till they cool off.
Does anyone know of a way to turn them down slightly, either in the bikes settings, or maybe with a plug in resistor? not sure if the canbus would tolerate this tho.

Stu

I wish mine 2006 GS went the other way.

1 dot is not enough, two dots is just ok..

Mind you i think the airflow from the screen is part of the problem


Mart

 

[rjsmith26]

This must be a joke - the amount of chat re heated grips not being hot enough and now they are too hot, made me chuckle.

I have a 15 GSA which has fixed grips, they Rae fine on no.1, can take gloves off to open garage and ride in without gloves, however if running on 2, they are pretty hot if you try and ride bike into garage with no gloves.

 

[matchbox]

I agree the high setting is really hot though if you read the manual it states this is for warming the grips which should then be set at the lower position. I find this just right but do have to turn them on and off.

 

[Sprocket Square]

+1. Two dots is just cray cray. One is manageable for a bit.

But then it depends on the scenario. Welsh hills, soaked to the bone in mud and rain with the wrong adventure gear on, I wanted 2 dots of heated everything!

 

[zoltan]

try in -10 with winter gloves. My first '13 LC had very low heat. Use it on the second setting.

 

[Stevie4scoops]

It seems BMW are taking the piss after all the complaints about the heated grips on GSLCs not getting hot enough by now making them too hot. I had a Multistrada in 2010 which had three settings and were great.

My XR grips don't get hot enough in very cold weather.

 

[wileeeeeey]

I have quite a basic BMW car with 3 stage heated leather seats but my top of the line GSA only has two stage. Makes no sense. They're a bunch of trolls. I too am turning on stage 1 for a while then turning it off and back on... very tedious.

 

[Blackal]

Not often heard, but I suspect that the Triple Black is so-o-o special, that the grips use dilithium crystals and Nuclear Fusion - to make the temperature in the grips almost unbearable.......

 

[Sprocket Square]

 

[Transglobalundies]

Hiya chaps,

does anyone else find the OEM heated grips too hot even on number 1? I have a 2016 TB, and find when riding with my 3 season gloves on, i'm constantly turning the grips off then back on a couple of minutes later, or taking my hands off the grips and holding them in the airstream till they cool off.
Does anyone know of a way to turn them down slightly, either in the bikes settings, or maybe with a plug in resistor? not sure if the canbus would tolerate this tho.

Stu

I agree with you. I thought it was me. I have a 2016 R1200R. Level one is fine and level 2 is only ok if you're moving. Stationary or slow moving and I have to turn it off


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[batman1]

You could try riding without gloves, that should sort it

 

[Nutty]

The heated grips on my current, and my last GSA are perfect, and can only stay on the highest setting briefly. On the XR, they are next to useless. Funny old world.

 

[telbenj]

On my 2013 and 14 they were not hot enough, on the XR they were useless. And now I have a 2016 GSA they are great yes they get hot but just switch the setting and they are fine.

Terry

 

[M30SJM]

Thanks for the reply chaps, although we haven't really found a solution. Its not a case of switching between the settings, number 1 is too hot on all but the coldest days or unless i'm wearing my thicker winter gloves.
I have a mate that has a Yamaha Tracer 900, and he can enter a set up menu where he can set the rating or temp for each switched setting, and i was hoping we could possibly do the same, and i just hadn't come across how to do it.

Anyway, i might look into the possibility of fitting a couple of resistors to maybe peg them back a little bit.

Ta
Stu

 

[batman1]

I believe that our brothers riding RT-LC's have about 5 temp settings?

 

[wileeeeeey]

I believe that our brothers riding RT-LC's have about 5 temp settings?

That is correct. No idea why they don't just have the same heat settings!!

Hilltop is missing a trick not being able to also program in the 5 stage heated grips ha!

 

[mattgslc]

too cold on one and wayyyyy tooo hot on number 2 (2016 gsa lc te )
my son likes to start my bike for me and let it warm up then give it a little rev before I go and he said the grips were too hot for his little hands bless him
need 3 stage setting really

 

[G&T]

Thumbs still get cold and it's bloody weird riding with them tucked under my fingers.

 

[Bmgsrider]

You think it would be easy for bmw to turn up the heat via ecu on 13 /14 grips and turn down 15 onwards to a happy medium. BMW want to sell yr 15 grips for 250 plus ecu set up .