join the aa before you break down!

sv650[x], 99[v] 12,000 mls. i was going to the ace cafe, but on the m40 towards central london the bike died. thankfully i had the aa sales number and joined, wait for it.....£139. aa turned up pretty quickly, loaded bike up and took me to a services where we were joined by an aa mechanic. bike is fitted with a datatool alarm which did not work now. aa found a chaffed wire on it so opened up loom and bypassed it. battery had 3.7 volts, so he put a power pack on it and it turned over but would not fire. no spark. no reading on meter from crankshaft sensor so it didnt know when to fire. aa man gave up, had to get home. £99 aa upgrade to get you home, £40 because i was over 50 miles from home, 20 miles at £2 per mile. anyway bike dropped of at bikers in north baddersley near romsey hants for investigation on monday. a rather expensive non breakfast ! anyone with any ideas of whats wrong, feel free to chip in.

[Spiderman]

Alarms immobiliser stopping it firing up? Just cos he bypassed the alarm doesnt always mean he bypassed the immobiliser too, right?

And for future reference you can by and instant basic membership to the AA from Argos ... only one limitation is that you cant use it on the day of purchase. I know this cos i did it many years ago, left my car where it broke down and then went back to it next day and called the AA and told them how lucky i'd been to think of buying it the day before it broke down, lol.
I'm sure they heard that one loads of times by now tho.

possibly, he was looking for another wire that was coil related, but couldn,t find it. if i had waited for 24 hrs i would not have to pay the milage charge. you can be wise after the event cant you ?

free roadside recovery with carole nash insurance? works for me

[maviczap]

H'mm yes, that is a bloomin expensive trip

I joined Rescue my car.com the night before our EAR rideout last month, as I was worried I'd have some kind of breakdown like you did

Was only £29

[husky03]

get rid of the alarm and imoboliser

[21QUEST]

Originally Posted by bald git

sv650[x], 99[v] 12,000 mls. i was going to the ace cafe, but on the m40 towards central london the bike died. thankfully i had the aa sales number and joined, wait for it.....£139. aa turned up pretty quickly, loaded bike up and took me to a services where we were joined by an aa mechanic. bike is fitted with a datatool alarm which did not work now. aa found a chaffed wire on it so opened up loom and bypassed it. battery had 3.7 volts, so he put a power pack on it and it turned over but would not fire. no spark. no reading on meter from crankshaft sensor so it didnt know when to fire. aa man gave up, had to get home. £99 aa upgrade to get you home, £40 because i was over 50 miles from home, 20 miles at £2 per mile. anyway bike dropped of at bikers in north baddersley near romsey hants for investigation on monday. a rather expensive non breakfast ! anyone with any ideas of whats wrong, feel free to chip in.

Re the bit, I have highlighted, not sure exactly what that means....sounds a daft question but what was the alarm not doing? How sure was he, that the alarm was the problem?

Anyhoos, I reckon the alarm was possibly not the problem but the wire which sends signal to the crank sensor(?)

From memory, I think it's the orange/red wire and goes all the way to the CDI.

Hope I'm making some sense lol but I shall try and find a thread of mine for you later as problem sounds similar.

Might save you some money at the garage as they wouldn't have to spend ages searching for the problem....and probably still not find it



Cheers
Ben

[yorkie_chris]

Battery on 3.7 volts?

Reg recs stuffed.

[Quiff Wichard]

30amp fuse in the alarm??

but that wouldnt affect the battery and it givin out a poor reading

[21QUEST]

YC, reasonable/logical but not necessarily I'd say. I wouldn't be absolutely sure until rectifier is tested.


Cheers
Ben