Blew lights on Heritage - need help!!!
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Blew lights on Heritage - need help!!!
I was trying to install the Flash To Pass thing, where flashing high beam twice opens your garage door. Apparently I screwed up. First try didn't work. So I switched the wires & now none of the 3 headlights work. I get all other lights to work, fuses are ok. I even replaced the main headlight & no juice. I am ok at working on stuff but am an electrical dumbass, so please dumb your answer down. Bike is 2004 Heritage. Thanks for any help!!
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if you have a multimeter, check to see if you have voltage going to the light. Back track from there. Something is open, not allowing the voltage to get there. Also does the bike start and run?
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Yes, everything else works. It runs, turn signals work, running lights, etc. just no headlights. I'm electrically dumb, so might take it to the dealer. My Indy guy can't look at it til next week. He's trying to get everybody ready for sturgis. I don't have a multimeter & wouldn't know what to do even if I had one. I do have a circuit tester (the kind that beeps if juice or not) & it ready no juice to the light.
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I was trying to install the Flash To Pass thing, where flashing high beam twice opens your garage door. Apparently I screwed up. First try didn't work. So I switched the wires & now none of the 3 headlights work. I get all other lights to work, fuses are ok. I even replaced the main headlight & no juice. I am ok at working on stuff but am an electrical dumbass, so please dumb your answer down. Bike is 2004 Heritage. Thanks for any help!!
Enough said right there.
Maybe U should take U bike to someone who knows how to work on Electrical stuff before U mess up even more.
Seriously, now not only did U probably blow some fuses, but worse U might have even melted some wires and now have a dead short some where.
Who knows, that's why sometimes we have to bite the bullet and pay someone to fix things we fudge up when we are over our head in doing a job.
This comes to my mind.
I am thinking if U don't take her somewhere at least get someone who knows what they are doing and that's by Ur own admission.
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Another thing I'll add is to get our garage door to open I put a garage door opener in the windshield bag..
I just open the lid on the bag when I get within a few hundred ft of our house and I Press the button.
Works every time,, and I didn't have to screw with the bikes wiring taking a chance of mucking Up anything.
So U might try that once U get on the road again, at least its simple and that's the way I like it.
IMO the more U add to U bike in Electronics the more things can screw up...
KISS,, is what I was taught all my life.
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I just open the lid on the bag when I get within a few hundred ft of our house and I Press the button.
Works every time,, and I didn't have to screw with the bikes wiring taking a chance of mucking Up anything.
So U might try that once U get on the road again, at least its simple and that's the way I like it.
IMO the more U add to U bike in Electronics the more things can screw up...
KISS,, is what I was taught all my life.
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