Bought a new 2016 Street Bob, drove it home 10 miles, woke up this morning to start it and...nothing. I turned it to acc and ignition, only got a very dim headlight and no other lights. No clicking sounds either, no sounds at all when trying to start.

I definitely didn't leave any lights on overnight or anything, but I hooked up a battery tender and the battery took over 8 hours to get the green steady light.

Went back out to hopefully get it started and...nothing. The lights are brighter but still no sounds when trying to start. Nothing on the speedo lights up. The alarm red light doesn't even blink.

I know I can get it fixed under warranty but ... what the hell? Anyone know what could be up?

 

Check your battery connections at battery, frame and starter. Start simple.

 

Sounds like a bad factory battery. There could be an issue with the charging system but that would be unlikely but not un heard of.

Also I would totally agree with the other poster about checking all the connections.

Get it fixed and enjoy..

Ride Safe,
Bill G

 

Same thing happened to mine when I bought it last year. Before I left the dealership they replaced it right away for me.

 

What are you waiting for?

Call the dealer.

 

Take it back and have them replace the battery. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to get them to replace it.

 

Thanks dudes, I feel better about it now! I'm coming from an Iron where I always heard how reliable they are but didn't really hear much about Dyna reliability.

I checked the connections and all are super tight. I checked with the battery tender again and it already went back down below 80%, so I pulled the battery out and will take it into Harley tomorrow for hopefully a new one.

I'll report back if that's all it was!

 

Well, I didn't find out until tonight and they are closed. If consensus was a bad battery, I figured it's easier for me to just bring in the battery instead of taking off work to wait for them to come trailer it away at their leisure.

 

Took the battery in this morning, checked out fine. They are going to pick up the bike tomorrow.

It seems only the tank speedo doesn't turn on now, I wonder if it's something with the security. We'll see.

 

hopefully a quick fix