So I've had an issue since the bike was brand new where the starting of it was slow like the battery was struggling to give the starter enough juice to get it going. I don't think it was the "decompression valve" thing people talk about as my 1250 had that but always started. At times this would just give up and the starter button wouldn't even respond to being pressed or would cause the dash to go blank. That was (so I thought) fixed in July with a software update but since then I've had 5 instances of the "red TFT of death" as someone on social media coined it.
It looks to be the same issue Mark Hooton who runs Cymarc had which he said was fixed with a software update but I need to wait and see what BMW say as his was fixed before mine had a software update at it's 6000mile service so theoretically mine should be on the latest, but we shall see.
First 3 times it happened simply turning the bike off and on cured it but it happened a few nights ago while out on a blood bike run and my only option was to disconnect the battery, but the battery screws were so f*cking tight I couldn't get them undone with the tools under the seat so I was stranded for nearly 2 hours until a kind fella let me borrow a 10mm socket to undo them. I did consider ringing BMW Assist but I've heard thats often not a great experience.
Anyhoo, it happened again last night and again needed a disconnect and reconnect of the battery to get it going. Currently awaiting the dealers response as they've apparently never seen this and want BMW technical to take a look before they advise on a course of action. They've already asked me to check the usual things like are the battery terminals tight etc and is the bike kept on a trickle charger, which it is, the BMW proper one (in lithium mode) so who knows what'll happen. Hopefully it's just a software fix cause I'm getting pissed off with this thing either not starting when I need it to or now doing this. Weirdly when it does this the bike will start absolutely fine but the TFT is showing none of the associated info like revs. etc.
It looks to be the same issue Mark Hooton who runs Cymarc had which he said was fixed with a software update but I need to wait and see what BMW say as his was fixed before mine had a software update at it's 6000mile service so theoretically mine should be on the latest, but we shall see.
First 3 times it happened simply turning the bike off and on cured it but it happened a few nights ago while out on a blood bike run and my only option was to disconnect the battery, but the battery screws were so f*cking tight I couldn't get them undone with the tools under the seat so I was stranded for nearly 2 hours until a kind fella let me borrow a 10mm socket to undo them. I did consider ringing BMW Assist but I've heard thats often not a great experience.
Anyhoo, it happened again last night and again needed a disconnect and reconnect of the battery to get it going. Currently awaiting the dealers response as they've apparently never seen this and want BMW technical to take a look before they advise on a course of action. They've already asked me to check the usual things like are the battery terminals tight etc and is the bike kept on a trickle charger, which it is, the BMW proper one (in lithium mode) so who knows what'll happen. Hopefully it's just a software fix cause I'm getting pissed off with this thing either not starting when I need it to or now doing this. Weirdly when it does this the bike will start absolutely fine but the TFT is showing none of the associated info like revs. etc.