Anybody on here have battery problems?
Here's the one going problem I've had for 3 years now and no one in the service departments in two shops has been able to diagnose it problerly as it keeps coming back.
3 years ago I was out ice fishing and when laeving my quad wouldn't turn over it would just make a clicking noise when the key was turned to start it. I wound up pull starting it and making it out of there. A few weeks later i was up in the hills and stopped for a moment. I then tried to start it and it did the same thing. This time I could get it pull started, it would run for a few seconds then die.
I brought it to the shop to see if they could fix it and they explained to me that it was a bad battery. They replaced the battery and it worked...... for about a month, then it started again, but this time I would be riding and it would just stall out at speeds around 35-40 MPH. I would then have to wait for a few seconds then pull start it because the ignition would make that clicking noise again.
This year, thinking it was the shops lack of knowledge, I switched shops and they threw a few parts at it. It worked again for a month or so, but went back to it's old habits of draining the battery and not starting. i'm confused why two shops have missed the problem and wondering if any of you have had similar problems.
I'm thinking that's its a parasitic drain somewhere in the electrical lines, but there's so many different things it does that there's really no pattern. It starts fine then it doesn't, it dies while moving, the battery goes dead within a month of fully charging it, so on and so forth.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Here's the one going problem I've had for 3 years now and no one in the service departments in two shops has been able to diagnose it problerly as it keeps coming back.
3 years ago I was out ice fishing and when laeving my quad wouldn't turn over it would just make a clicking noise when the key was turned to start it. I wound up pull starting it and making it out of there. A few weeks later i was up in the hills and stopped for a moment. I then tried to start it and it did the same thing. This time I could get it pull started, it would run for a few seconds then die.
I brought it to the shop to see if they could fix it and they explained to me that it was a bad battery. They replaced the battery and it worked...... for about a month, then it started again, but this time I would be riding and it would just stall out at speeds around 35-40 MPH. I would then have to wait for a few seconds then pull start it because the ignition would make that clicking noise again.
This year, thinking it was the shops lack of knowledge, I switched shops and they threw a few parts at it. It worked again for a month or so, but went back to it's old habits of draining the battery and not starting. i'm confused why two shops have missed the problem and wondering if any of you have had similar problems.
I'm thinking that's its a parasitic drain somewhere in the electrical lines, but there's so many different things it does that there's really no pattern. It starts fine then it doesn't, it dies while moving, the battery goes dead within a month of fully charging it, so on and so forth.
Any ideas?
Thanks