Hairy Ben
Registered user
Wotcha.
The alarm on my 2002 1150GS karked it a few days ago (The alarm itself being the BMW standard fit jobby).. Completely immobilised bike, nice smell of burning, fizz pop fuse, etc etc.. And after a shufti through the threads on here regarding alarms in general, the consensus seeming to be rip it ahht and throw it as far as you can, that is what I've wound up doing.
Which is all well and good. But..
Having disconnected all the wires and connecters from the alarm to the bike I'm still left with a bike I cannot start.
The initial problem of it blowing the RID/auxillary power socket 15amp fuse is fine now, and the bike reacts just like it should up to the point where I'd normally press the button on the keyfob to deactivate the immobiliser, something I obviously can't do anymore being as the reciever is on the floor next to the bike. But that's as far as I can get.
Now, electrics are a bit black-magic/voodoo to me, but I'm thinking that having removed the alarm system I've interrupted the ignition circuit and now need to re-complete it so the whole thing fires up on the key. And when the alarm wiring was removed it did leave three unconnected connecters, see below..
I saw mention on a thread here that the blue connecter might need a blanking plug in it to let the bike know there's no alarm fitted any more, is this true? And should the other two plugs be connected with something or can I just tape them up?
Or have I just missed a big blown fuse somewhere? (The fuses in the fusebox itself being fine now)
Any advice gratefully recieved!
The alarm on my 2002 1150GS karked it a few days ago (The alarm itself being the BMW standard fit jobby).. Completely immobilised bike, nice smell of burning, fizz pop fuse, etc etc.. And after a shufti through the threads on here regarding alarms in general, the consensus seeming to be rip it ahht and throw it as far as you can, that is what I've wound up doing.
Which is all well and good. But..
Having disconnected all the wires and connecters from the alarm to the bike I'm still left with a bike I cannot start.
The initial problem of it blowing the RID/auxillary power socket 15amp fuse is fine now, and the bike reacts just like it should up to the point where I'd normally press the button on the keyfob to deactivate the immobiliser, something I obviously can't do anymore being as the reciever is on the floor next to the bike. But that's as far as I can get.
Now, electrics are a bit black-magic/voodoo to me, but I'm thinking that having removed the alarm system I've interrupted the ignition circuit and now need to re-complete it so the whole thing fires up on the key. And when the alarm wiring was removed it did leave three unconnected connecters, see below..
I saw mention on a thread here that the blue connecter might need a blanking plug in it to let the bike know there's no alarm fitted any more, is this true? And should the other two plugs be connected with something or can I just tape them up?
Or have I just missed a big blown fuse somewhere? (The fuses in the fusebox itself being fine now)
Any advice gratefully recieved!