Hello all,
99 1150gs, had for 9 years.
A few years ago purchased a gel battery from Bmw which never seemed like it had the power to start the bike correctly. Used to get a lot of ABS flashing even when not stood for that long even when riding frequently just didn’t seem right.
Purchased an optimate to maintain and quickly realised the battery wasn’t holding charge. Perhaps a damaged cell?
Bought a motobatt in Jan of this year and seemed all ok, used semi regularly and maintained on optimate all good.
Then left for 5 weeks after a long run (no issues at all) and now dead and won’t accept charge.
I have 2 optimates and both will say it’s under 40% charge then confirm the battery is unable to hold charge at maintenance test stage.
Could there be some situation or miss connection or alternator issue that is killing batteries on my bike? It seems too much of a coincidence to be two faulty ones.
Thanks.
Dan
99 1150gs, had for 9 years.
A few years ago purchased a gel battery from Bmw which never seemed like it had the power to start the bike correctly. Used to get a lot of ABS flashing even when not stood for that long even when riding frequently just didn’t seem right.
Purchased an optimate to maintain and quickly realised the battery wasn’t holding charge. Perhaps a damaged cell?
Bought a motobatt in Jan of this year and seemed all ok, used semi regularly and maintained on optimate all good.
Then left for 5 weeks after a long run (no issues at all) and now dead and won’t accept charge.
I have 2 optimates and both will say it’s under 40% charge then confirm the battery is unable to hold charge at maintenance test stage.
Could there be some situation or miss connection or alternator issue that is killing batteries on my bike? It seems too much of a coincidence to be two faulty ones.
Thanks.
Dan