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Click noise when I try to turn on but then it was fine?

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Hello all, new owner of a 22 FTR R Carbon here;

Purchased mine used with 1k miles. Been having some issues (still under warranty) that I'll be taking in to dealer to have looked at.

For one it seems to be overheating when stopped, got engine to over 260F and check engine light went on.


However something that occurred this morning when I went to take it out. I tried starting it and I could only hear the solenoid click but the engine starter would not turn. I tried this 10 times and nothing. The electronics all worked fine.

Feeling a bit defeated, I rolled it back into my garage and turned off key, but then went to try again just one more time and the engine turned first try and bike started with no issues as if it had never happened. I tried again several times after just to make sure and it's turning fine. Was very weird that for that moment it would absolutely not turn but now it's back to being fine?

Anyone seen this issue before? I thought it might be the battery, but it looks fine to me.
 
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Fan should start spinning at around 207°F, so yeah, definitely something wrong.
 
Max Kool said:
Fan should start spinning at around 207°F, so yeah, definitely something wrong.
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It's weird because if I just turn the bike on to test, the fan works no problem when it gets to about 200F like you said. However, if I ride it and then come home and keep it on, the fan simply doesn't turn on at all and the engine temp just keeps going up.
 
Maybe it needs an ECU reflash or something. Did you buy from a dealership or private sale?

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irsh said:
Maybe it needs an ECU reflash or something. Did you buy from a dealership or private sale?

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It was a consignment through a dealership. I bought it AS IS, however, when I signed up for My Garage at the Indian website, it showed the bike still has about a year left on the warranty. So taking it in on Tues to have that issue looked at.
 
Honestly sounds like a couple of bad relays. I have had the starter relay fail twice with the starting symptoms you describe. I now keep a new spare relay in my toolbox just in case. You can verify easily by first checking that the horn works (horn relay check) then in the fuse box swapping the working horn relay to the starter relay. Check the bad relay in the horn position by trying to use the horn. No horn=bad relay.

Fan should come on at 207° and stay on until below 200°. I’ve never had overheating issues even sitting in traffic in 95°F days. My guess is fan relay is bad/intermittent.
 
Charliemurphay said:
Honestly sounds like a couple of bad relays. I have had the starter relay fail twice with the starting symptoms you describe. I now keep a new spare relay in my toolbox just in case. You can verify easily by first checking that the horn works (horn relay check) then in the fuse box swapping the working horn relay to the starter relay. Check the bad relay in the horn position by trying to use the horn. No horn=bad relay.

Fan should come on at 207° and stay on until below 200°. I’ve never had overheating issue even sitting in traffic in 95°F days. My guess is fan relay is bad/intermittent.
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I've owned the bike for about 5 days now and ridden it every day, and the clicking issues happened twice. Both times it happened during my first start of the day. The bike clicks and then maybe 5 seconds later it click again.

First time it happened, I waited about 1 min then tried again and it worked, on the second time it happened (today actually), I attached my battery tender to it, waited 10 seconds and it worked.

I'm wondering if it could be a battery issue?
 
Charliemurphay said:
Honestly sounds like a couple of bad relays. I have had the starter relay fail twice with the starting symptoms you describe. I now keep a new spare relay in my toolbox just in case. You can verify easily by first checking that the horn works (horn relay check) then in the fuse box swapping the working horn relay to the starter relay. Check the bad relay in the horn position by trying to use the horn. No horn=bad relay.

Fan should come on at 207° and stay on until below 200°. I’ve never had overheating issues even sitting in traffic in 95°F days. My guess is fan relay is bad/intermittent.
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Took these from when it overheated because fan wouldn't turn on
 
I filmed it and don't know how to upload it on here, says file is too big.

I dropped bike at dealer so hopefully the issues gets solved.
 
JackJ said:
I filmed it and don't know how to upload it on here, says file is too big.

I dropped bike at dealer so hopefully the issues gets solved.
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pop it on youtube and link it?

But hopefully dealer sorts it for you
 
I also just put in order in for a NOCO lithium ion battery on amazon. It's like 10 lbs lighter and several times stronger and lasts charge longer than the standard lead batteries. Hopefully this also helps to deal with the starter issues.
 
More realistic than US$130 for a a Noco NLP14?

(I don't know Optima, I believe they're good as well if you say so)
 
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