No Speedo and brake failure warning

[boo]

Hi everyone been out for a run tonight had no speedo reading and brake failure warning light stayed on,brakes were fine pulled over and restarted bike and everything was finenew to the gs so be patient its a 06.Boo

 

[IJGser]

Sounds like you fixed it with the same method applied to all electrical devises.

Hope it stays fixed and nobody posts that it's the first sign of something worse.

 

[ihandyman247]

Hi everyone been out for a run tonight had no speedo reading and brake failure warning light stayed on,brakes were fine pulled over and restarted bike and everything was finenew to the gs so be patient its a 06.Boo

you answer your own problem

 

[roamer]

no speedo

it might be worth checking the rear abs sensor/ wiring, and play in rear wheel
the speedo picks up on the back wheel and the abs will fault if it loses a signal,,

 

[dippy]

I've an 06 gsa and had the same problem but with loss of 80% of brakes. switch off and on and then all ok again. only happed when i had one of the brakes on for a while, at traffic lights etc. bath road bmw said it was corrosion on the rear brake light as it's pretty much open to the element. i had a bucket load of rear brake light error codes. changed the contacts and bulb and been ok for the past year although i've also done a diy cover to protect the contacts.

 

[jwpzx9r]

I have had one or two times when the light has come on. The first time I was up in the mountains and it came on as I braked for the first bend. It would not go off after I stoped and restarted the bike.. but I was on a steep down hill and had held it on the brake when it went through its check. I have since found out that this causes a problem in itself! Had to drive home with virtually no brakes. I returned to the dealer who checked it out and returned it to me with the light off and brakes working fine. The other times it happened I just switched it off and then on again and the fault cleared so I think it must be an electrical fault some where. I worry about these kind of things when you know the price of the replacement parts

 

[mikeyboy]

could be the first sign of a final drive problem,metal swarf from the bearings collect on the magnetic sensor causing interferance,pop the sensor out and see if it is covered in metal swarf.if it is it will need overhauling.it just so happens i can do that for you

 

[boo]

Thanks for the replies I will check some things out Boo

 

[jim123]

I had this on my 2006 GS about 2 years back. The problem was due to the battery getting low, although the bike started OK. However with the control unit on the bike picking up a low battery state of charge, the Canbus deactivated the ABS and Speedo (I think the logic is that this places less demand on the available battery reserves).

I found that after giving the battery a good charge (decent run or charger) when I restarted everything was back to normal. I had to do this a few times and then opted to change the battery.

Touching wood there had been no recurrence.

 

[boo]

Hi Checked everything out and it was the battery being low so charged it up and everything seems fine thanks again Boo