Turn handlebars to the left .. light turns out. Ive tracked it to a white plastic connecttor. I can see that one of the contacts is starting to burn out, looks black inside the plastic . I clean it out with electric contact cleaner. Then I put some die electric grease. Works for a few weeks. Then happens a again. This is a massive pain. Anyone have this issue? is there s a FIX??
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Silly me. I have a2009 m1100 .
I had a similar issue, however mine was the blue cable at the head tube. Its the wire that goes to the switch on Euro bike so you can turn off the head lights during day driving.
I just had this problem too. Mine turned out to be a melted connector in the wiring harness. you have an exposed wire and it is touching the metal somewhere in the wiring harness. if your bike is still under warranty take it in and have them fix it..
I had this problem with my 97 M750, turned out the wires snapped right by where they go to the frame. I also had a similar issue with my start button, turn left, no start and bike dies, turned right and it fired right up. I found the offending wires, spliced them back together. Luckily there was a hardware store a block away from where it died.
Quote from: polivo on August 01, 2011, 08:35:31 AM
Silly me. I have a2009 m1100 .
Known issue with the 696/1100, requires a replacement.
It's the reason for one of the five times this POS bike has stranded me. Not that I'm bitter. Headlights went out completely at night.
Happened to me last night, 09 M1100s. So what is the fix? My dealer is 3 hours away and I don't really want to deal with them. I do my own maintenance, I tapped into the horn wire inside inside that control assy for my heated grips, was thinking last night that might have something to do with it. That was before In knew of this know issue [coffee]
theres a white connector that usually has one burnt (or burning out) plug. take off your headlight, the left bolt also holds this white connector. Seperate the white connector and youll see one of the plugs is black, the other 3 are ok. Do your best to clean out both sides of the black connector. I used an extremely thin screw driver. One thats used for eyeglasses. I was able to scrape out alot of the corrossion so the ping and female connector could make some contact. Then I fill the plug with dielectricc grease. That has worked for me twice. let me know if that helps.
Excellent Polivo, thanks I found it. It should be "B" in the picture below. One connector was indeed burnt, and I di not have to remove the headlight, just pulled the plug pictured, cleaned it up and put it back together and it works. Now to find a new replacement plug assy...
(http://i737.photobucket.com/albums/xx11/scooterd145/M1100headlightconnector.jpg)
glad i could help. Ive gotten tons of great advise on this website. Just an fyi. Theres is supposedly a "service bulletin" out to ducati dealers. If your bike is still under warranty, bring it in.. they will replace it. However, if you repl;ace it yourself, you might void your warranty. just a heads up. Thats why i just clean mine out.. and i have a appt to drop mine off.
hard wire that shit. ;D