Battery issues

[Tabbytot10@]

This is the first new bike i have been able to afford and feel a bit disappointed , only done 400mile and great to ride but a couple of weeks ago the battery went flat and the bike was recovered to a dealer and they charged the battery up and said they have had a lot of problems with the m sport with the trackers and alarms fitted and i should spend another ?80 on top of a 20k bike and buy a lithium float charger which I have done . 4 days ago I moved the bike but did not plug the charger back in and yesterday got a call from the tracker company with a battery alert and Ariel last night I plugged the charger back in happy days I thought got a call again today from Datatool with a battery low , got my daughter send me a photo of the charger and it has come up red error on the battery , got her to un plug the charger and start again to see if it will recover . Should I go back to bmw and say it needs a new battery ? Help

 

[JamieMac]

Unplug it again and re plug it in. Always keep your bike on trickle charge. It's been the rule since the mid nineties.

 

[Tabbytot10@]

Thats what I have done , Datatool have said the tracker needs replacing as it is sending data every 20 seconds

 

[Flyingscotsman]

You could try changing for a non-lithium standard AGM battery. The lithium batteries tend to have about half the charge capacity (Ah) compared to the lead-acid AGM alternative. Unless you are using it on track I wouldn't worry abot the extra weight of a lead-acid battery.

If this is a new bike, I would suggest that dealer supplies you with a new lead-acid AGM battery free of charge.

 

[Tabbytot10@]

The bike only has 400 miles on it , I will go back to the dealer to sort

 

[RickS1K]

My bike has done 0 miles and the battery depleted after about a month. I had to get BMW emergency services to bring the battery back to life and it's been a trickle charger ever since with with no problems .. so far anyway.
My R has a lead battery and it's been stuck at the dealer for 6-weeks because I can't ride at the moment and the battery failed on Wednesday, which sounds about right

 

[Tabbytot10@]

It does make you wonder if they should supplier a charger from new and tell you your need to plug it in , which is fine as long as you have access to electric where it is stored , maybe they should sell these as plug in ( but not Hybrid ) . I have a 2004 gs1200 which had a split alternator case in the south of france and would charge and then stop charging , this made it all the way back to the uk at some points the alternator was off for 20min at a time . does not seem link we have come very far

 

[Katie]

No help with the draining issues but if you h.ave somewhere to keep the bike but no power line, Optimate do a DC trickle charger. https://www.optimate.co.uk/products/optimate-dc I've got mine hooked up to a leisure battery and just need to recharge that every 3-4 weeks. Not perfect but it saves disconnecting the bike battery every time you need a boost!

 

[Fraggle]

I think Optimate also do a solar powered charger which would be ideal for trickle charging

 

[SteveButch]

Just had to change my battery after 4 years, bike been on a trickle charge from new after a initial issue of draining due to the tracker running it flat. Would not have a lithium one though

 

[HPlogger]

Has anyone tried these https://www.sportsbikeshop.co.uk/motorcycle_parts/content_prod/248949 batteries on S1000RR?

I think my OEM battery is on it's way out as i measured 9v on start up and engine cut out on me, but once the bike was ticking over it was getting 14v!

 

[alex]

14v at tickover means the generator is working well. The battery will drop during cranking.

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[HPlogger]

Yes it is, and my battery is holding a good charge as well of 13v so I've gone and ordered a BMW datatool tracker fitted by BMW details:

https://www.datatool.co.uk/datatoolstealthbiketracking/

This will test my battery now hahahahaha:highly_amused::highly_amused::highly_amused:

It was a cloth in my air intake

 

[alex]

It was a cloth in my air intake

Whoops!


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[stuartb]

We need pics of that !

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