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Old Jun 21, 2018 | 07:44 AM
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Rumor has it that Harley has a serice bulletin out, or soon will, about idling issues on the 2018 trikes . Don’t know if any other models or years are affected, but I’m told it has to do with a “ stumbling” when the engine is cold causing a possible Stall which in turn becomes a safety issue.......anybody else heard about this?
 
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Old Jun 21, 2018 | 11:07 AM
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My 18 idles like it has and intake leak, dealer says "that's normal" it almost stumbles and dies at times.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2018 | 11:34 AM
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My 18 idles like it has and intake leak, dealer says "that's normal" it almost stumbles and dies at times.
is you etims active. I know my 15 will stumble if I try to pull out while it is
 
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Old Jun 21, 2018 | 01:24 PM
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is you etims active. I know my 15 will stumble if I try to pull out while it is
It's off.

She's hitting on both cylinders but very unstable at idle, as if a vacuum leak.
 
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Old Jun 21, 2018 | 01:52 PM
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Mine has shown this a few times and died out twice, going to stop by the dealer tomorrow and find out what the deal is. It’s supposed to be a reset of the computer and take about 5 minutes to do a reset.....we’ll see!!!
 
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I noticed my 17 TG idles better with 93 octane fuel. The manual says to use 91 or better so I try to do that every time.
 
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The first trike we demoed did that exact thing and ran poorly , but the one we ended up buying did not and ran much better
 
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I have had no issues with my 2018 Tri-Glide
 
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Went up to the dealer and they did a ecm software update and it idles much smother.
 
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