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no headlights, highbeam indicator on etc...

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#1 ·
HEy fellas, out of the blue my bike is acting up!
symptoms:

Turn key on and:
Up -front:

NO headlights or running front corner lil lights, both turn signal indicators are on (not blinking just on) high beam indicator is on as well. Also both fron blinkers are not working .

Rear:

Tail light is on, both turn signals are stuck on, brake light works fine.

The only thing I have added to the bike was an led intergrated turn signal tail light, but that was like 3 yrs ago and it always worked fine till yesterday.

any ideas? or anyone experienced this?
 
#2 ·
I'm a little confused...you say you added LED integrated turn signals but then you say your rear turn signals are stuck on. If they are integrated, you should have no turn signals as your brake lights become your signals. Your headlights and turn signals are on two different circuits so they shouldn't affect each other but I've seen some strange things happen if you lose a turn signal bulb with integrated signals. I would check your front corner lights cause they are on the same circuit as your turn signals and if one or both are burned out, it throw the whole load off and cause the integrator to malfunction. After sorting out your turn signals, you'll probably find your headlight bulbs burned out or a bad headlight relay.

Mark
99 R1
 
#3 ·
I'm a little confused...you say you added LED integrated turn signals but then you say your rear turn signals are stuck on. If they are integrated, you should have no turn signals as your brake lights become your signals. Your headlights and turn signals are on two different circuits so they shouldn't affect each other but I've seen some strange things happen if you lose a turn signal bulb with integrated signals. I would check your front corner lights cause they are on the same circuit as your turn signals and if one or both are burned out, it throw the whole load off and cause the integrator to malfunction. After sorting out your turn signals, you'll probably find your headlight bulbs burned out or a bad headlight relay.

Mark
99 R1
I do have LED intergrated tailight/turnsignals, never the less they are signals tu turn, is what I meant.
EIther way i solved the issue. It was a burned connector (the lower one that leads to the head light assemble, lowest one out of the two white connectors to tthe left of the fake ram ait duct cover. I inspected it and bam it has melted. I just cleanned it out and put a new female pin mini connector to replace the burned one.
I believe this must have burned out when I ran my highbeams for like 2 weeks straigh trying out high wattage yellow bulbs.

all solved
 
#4 ·
check the fuses under the front left access panels(under your grips) if they are ok then follow them up the wiring harness checking for power the whole way... in my case i had a damaged connector in the harness(on the main harness) I did a clip and solder job rather than replacing an entire harness for just one wire...
 
#6 ·
i've ran into this issue a while back, so far everyone is saying the right things, check your fuses, and just a quick question, you haven't had any fairings off anytime soon lately at all, cause if you did, check the wiring up front for the lights, could have pinched a wire causing some problems or as mentioned before could have a bad wire somewhere.
 
#8 ·
yeah, somewhere in the wiring its dicked up, from what your saying it sounds like its a broken connection somewhere, go pick yourself up a handy little meter, you can go big and use a nice one or the simple ones (two leads connected to a battery setup) when they connect it gives a light so you know the wire is good all the way through no breaks. Other wise your checking resistance which if its the wire is good it will read 0 ohms, if bad should say O.L. (open/break)
 
#11 ·
I'm having the same issue with my new to me 05 R1. The black wire that was burnt, are you talking about the white connector near the right hand side of the top of the rad? I've got a burnt pin there. Did you just cut the wire out of that bundle and join it up to each side of the connector with a splice (or another connector)? Thanks!
 
#12 ·
I would cut it, solder it together and heat shrink wrap it. Separate the connector and clean and check all other pins. While the fairings off, separate all visible connectors and add some dielectric grease to all of them. Could prove helpful down the road in avoiding electrical issues.
 
#13 ·
Just had this issue on my '12 , ended up being a burnt ground pin on the white connector next to the rad.