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.......need a new bike battery as had to call people out this morning for home start (couple of hours late for work grrrrr) and not sure if it will start tonight for me now! ~ charged it up on sunday and it has lost all charge since then so it's definately the battery....
any one know how much this is going to set me back ?
Bloody heck you have some serious bad luck with your bike dont ya?
Don't know how much one will set you back but can't imagine its too much.
Good luck and hope its the last thing that goes wrong.
Jelster
11-11-05, 12:19 PM
About £40 from Halfords.
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It is due to go into the garage on monday as well for front fork oil and seals to be done!! (this is one expensive bike!!) :cry:
Sid Squid
11-11-05, 01:31 PM
Since you charged it has the bike been used regularly? If no it could well be a duff battery, if yes then even an aged battery should have been constantly recharged by your running the bike, get the garage to check that the charging system is functioning correctly. The SV has a reputation for knackered regulator-rectifiers, (that's the 'leccy bit that takes the alternator current and converts it for battery charging).
mysteryjimbo
11-11-05, 01:43 PM
About £40 from Halfords.
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£30ish from balddood :thumbsup:
okay seriously not having a good bike day... rode up to Halfords and they dont stock SV bike batteries... phoned Fowlers and they charge £55 for them!! :shock: ... tried to get to them before they closed and missed them by minutes!!! <sulk> :?
Anna, honey, you are not alone! My SV seems to eat batteries. Got a new one from my local mechanic who looks after my bike in the summer (£25ish). The battery went flat about a fortnight ago and spent the night on the Optimiser, ran fine until I went out to her this morning (sun out, roads quite dry) and the d**ned thing was flat again. When I hooked it up to the Optimiser it showed it was half charged but within a couple of hours it was fully charged. Looks like I'm about to get onto battery No. 3 and I've only had the bike just over a year. Mind, she does live outside and the temp is dropping!
The idea of an optimiser is to have the Battery connected while you are not using the bike as the battery discharges the charger trips in to help keep the batttery at optimum health.
Batterys when not used deteriorate so if you do not use your bike regulary keep it on the optimiser
Anna, honey, you are not alone! My SV seems to eat batteries. Got a new one from my local mechanic who looks after my bike in the summer (£25ish). The battery went flat about a fortnight ago and spent the night on the Optimiser, ran fine until I went out to her this morning (sun out, roads quite dry) and the d**ned thing was flat again. When I hooked it up to the Optimiser it showed it was half charged but within a couple of hours it was fully charged. Looks like I'm about to get onto battery No. 3 and I've only had the bike just over a year. Mind, she does live outside and the temp is dropping!
bloody hell! Ive managed 36k miles on one battery. and mine lives outside and uncovered and not had a hint of a problem with it. Then it was the battery which replaced the one I originally had as the faulty rectifier fried that one.
does the bike get used daily? if not that may have something to do with it. if the bikes not keeping charge its what emperor etc squid said, possibly faulty rectifier.
£25 quid for a battery.. please let me know where you got it from ... Fowlers charged me £55!!!! (then had to buy a charger for the thing to be able to fully charge it before it goes on the bike in the morning!) :roll:
Red ones
12-11-05, 09:17 PM
Batteries?
Speak to Baldood!
The battery is on the Optimiser to recharge it/top it up. It came from Incity Motorcylces in York. The bike is used daily, though probably not as much as it should be just now. Hubby's bike lives in the neighbour's garage and is used a lot less, no problems with that battery tho'. If it dies again, it will be off for a visit to Les at Incity!
mysteryjimbo
12-11-05, 11:28 PM
Batteries?
Speak to Baldood!
I think i said that.
Look up "County Battery" on Yell. They're in Sutton in Ashfield (Mansfield). Sean aka balddood works there
northwind
13-11-05, 01:46 AM
I was just in Halfords looking for one today... My local dealers reckon they have one in stock but can't find it :roll: . If you look at the wee Halfords "What part for your bike" thing they don't list one for the SV, but the store I was in did have the right one for the K3> in stock. They just don't know it fits.
So I'll be calling Balddood too :)
squirrel_hunter
13-11-05, 02:20 AM
Mine went through batteries, normally pay £45 for them. Turned out it was the regulator that needed replacing (Thanks to Sid Squid for his 'how to check' and 21Quest for the replacment) worth giving it a look
And I hate Fowlers to!!
anyone any ideas of what to check for next when new fully charged battery doesnt work? :cry:
I've had battery problems all summer. If my bikes not ridden every other day then I have a dead battery. The alarm and immobiliser knocks the battery out very quickly.
About four weeks ago I bought a new battery... cost me £70 inc vat!!! So don't think you've been done with what you paid lol.
The lights are much brighter and the battery lasts for nearly two weeks without having the Optimate on. Only this week have I gone out to it and it's been dead.
squirrel_hunter
13-11-05, 03:54 PM
anyone any ideas of what to check for next when new fully charged battery doesnt work?
Depends what exactly the problem is but try this to check the charging system...
http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=23314&highlight=regulator
If its not starting then it could be the alarm system, if fitted or a fuse.
Does it turn over at all?
anyone any ideas of what to check for next when new fully charged battery doesnt work? :cry:
Sid Squid mentioned this earlier in the thread. If the battery isnt retaining its charge likely to be the rectifier gone. Which is what happened with mine. A faulty rectifier wont charge a battery when bike is being ridden and it can damage a battery too.
anyone any ideas of what to check for next when new fully charged battery doesnt work? :cry:
Sid Squid mentioned this earlier in the thread. If the battery isnt retaining its charge likely to be the rectifier gone. Which is what happened with mine. A faulty rectifier wont charge a battery when bike is being ridden and it can damage a battery too.
problem esculated see other thread
http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.php?t=30034
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