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Old Jul 1, 2010 | 07:34 AM
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I went to start the bike this morning and the battery was dead no power at all I will have this bike for 1 year the 17th of this month is there any warranty on the battery?? I rode it to work the day before.
 
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Old Jul 1, 2010 | 06:43 PM
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you can try to charge the battery and see how that goes...or take battery to dealer, they should do a load test and based on that would be the outcome, dealer should replace battery under warranty but probably will require that the bike is there to check if there's something that caused it to drain/dye...good luck
 
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Old Jul 1, 2010 | 11:50 PM
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When I pull in the garage I plug into a battery tender for that very reason. Had that happen to me before a couple of times.
 
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Old Jul 1, 2010 | 11:54 PM
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Check your battery terminals. Especially the ground.
 
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Old Jul 2, 2010 | 02:11 AM
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Originally Posted by SpicOfTheDevil
you can try to charge the battery and see how that goes...or take battery to dealer, they should do a load test and based on that would be the outcome, dealer should replace battery under warranty but probably will require that the bike is there to check if there's something that caused it to drain/dye...good luck
If I were the dealer and you brought me a dead battery and wanted it Warrantied . . . I'd really want to see the bike. Batteries don't usually go dead after just a year all on their lonesome. It can happen but it's pretty rare. I used to work for an OEM Automotive Company and over 98% of the batteries we got back under warranty were simply discharged. In other words whatever was wrong . . . it wasn't the battery. A Battery is like an Electron Gas Tank; and running our of Gas doesn't mean there is a problem with the Gas Tank. There's usually something that is either drainng the Battery when the Bike is Off; or the Charging System isn't replacing the Electrical Charge that is being used when starting and running the Bike.

Since a Bike will stay running a long time (several hours in some cases) after the battery no longer has enough of a charge to start the bike . . . the typical experience of the owner is that the Bike was running fine one minute . . . and then the next time they go to start the Bike . . . the Battery is dead . . . Actually the Battery was dead a long time before that, but until the owner needed to use the starter motor which uses about 20 to 30 times more power from the battery than the rest of the bike combined . . . . everything seemed OK . . .
 
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Old Jul 2, 2010 | 06:18 AM
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When I got home yesterday I put the battery charger on and 1 hour later the bike started unhooked the charger and rode for a couple hours and this morning it fired right up I am still taking it in to have it looked at .
 
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Old Jul 4, 2010 | 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by DaSham58
I am still taking it in to have it looked at .
Good move there, let them check it out to make sure there isn't something else causing it to go dead on you.
 
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Old Jul 4, 2010 | 01:36 AM
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You actually have a two year warranty on the battery. If it goes bad the dealer will replace it under warranty at no charge to you. It happened to my son's Wide Glide. It went dead so he took it in and they said to use a maintainer on it. He did but it went totally dead and wouldn't hold a charge at all. It was only about three or four months from the time it first died. But then his warranty was expired by about a month or so. They replaced it under warranty anyway because he'd already had a problem with it. Zero charge.
 
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