st247
Registered user
Hi all.
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced, or heard of, the type of intermittent failure i'm having with my 2005 GS.
Randomly, when riding the low beam headlight will flash off then on several times (I've not counted how many times as I'm usually concentrating on other things when the light goes off at night!). There's no rhythm to the fault and it only happens to the low beam- sometimes it happens every fifteen minutes on a ride, other times it isn't apparent for hundreds of miles (ridden about 350 miles in between the last couple of instances).
The bike has HIDs fitted to both low and main beam. I've swapped components between the low and high setups to rule out the HIDs as the cause. I've also removed the headlight, checked all the wiring for high resistance (I know that some headlights have had heat related failures) and cleaned up all the contacts - including those from the loom to the headlight - but found no issues.
For now I've removed the HIDs and returned to bulbs to see if that makes any difference, although given the above I don't see how it could. My next port of call is the loom / ZFE connections but I wondered if anyone has any other ideas, or experience of the issue?
Cheers
Andy
I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced, or heard of, the type of intermittent failure i'm having with my 2005 GS.
Randomly, when riding the low beam headlight will flash off then on several times (I've not counted how many times as I'm usually concentrating on other things when the light goes off at night!). There's no rhythm to the fault and it only happens to the low beam- sometimes it happens every fifteen minutes on a ride, other times it isn't apparent for hundreds of miles (ridden about 350 miles in between the last couple of instances).
The bike has HIDs fitted to both low and main beam. I've swapped components between the low and high setups to rule out the HIDs as the cause. I've also removed the headlight, checked all the wiring for high resistance (I know that some headlights have had heat related failures) and cleaned up all the contacts - including those from the loom to the headlight - but found no issues.
For now I've removed the HIDs and returned to bulbs to see if that makes any difference, although given the above I don't see how it could. My next port of call is the loom / ZFE connections but I wondered if anyone has any other ideas, or experience of the issue?
Cheers
Andy