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1. Did you buy the bike new?
2. If you did not buy it new, did the previous owner have 2 fobs and hide one on the bike.
3. Electrical interference somewhere may be causing the issue.
4. Any new electronic devices or change to electronic devices recently.
5. Take the bike somewhere away from the garage and see if the same issue is present.
6. Check the connections to the security system and the antenna.
NOTE:
The above information, while credible, is worth what you paid for it and should not be considered gospel.
Do due diligence, research and have a H-D Field Service Manual before working on your bike.
You will probably have many opinions and suggestions presented; make sure you research the person providing the helpful information as there are some who provide good information and some who speak out of other orifices with gibberish. You will figure out this quickly.
Originally Posted by Msanossian
Resolution: Just rolled it away from the house and it worked without issue!
Then you have some sort of electrical interference in the garage or house. WiFi Router, Bluetooth, something that links up to your WiFi or something generating electrical interference.
Resolution: Just rolled it away from the house and it worked without issue!
Glad you followed the advice and resolved the problem. I could imagine your frustration if you did bring it to the dealer and then got the call that everything was normal. I gotta say this is the 1st I've heard of issues with security cause by where you store the bike.
Wifi and Bluetooth won't interfere unless their radios are horribly defective; the Delphi fobs are on a UHF ISM band (433MHz) while Wifi etc is on the 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz ISM bands. The most likely culprit is a sparking motor, like a heater/HVAC, fan, fridge compressor, freezer, pump, or possibly a fluorescent lighting armature. This is assuming you don't have a UHF transmitter in the house. Some old wireless electronics and some garage door openers can also possibly interfere. The fact that it's intermittent (you observe you keep flipping the ignition switch until it suddenly works again) strongly suggests a motor like a fridge, freezer, or heater.
I think this same thing has happened to people while next to a gas pump. Push the bike away and it fires right up. Electrical interference of some sort coming from the pumps. Same thing with keeping the fob and your cell phone in the same pocket.
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Some old wireless electronics and some garage door openers can also possibly interfere. The fact that it's intermittent (you observe you keep flipping the ignition switch until it suddenly works again) strongly suggests a motor like a fridge, freezer, or heater.
