Did you ever get it sorted out? Inquiring minds are dying to hear the solution. Was it batteries or something more major?

 

Sorry - I thought I had posted yesterday but it didn't go through..

Um .. yeah ... t'would seem it was the battery. In BOTH Fobs. (makes sense seeing they are the same age).

Thanks for the replies.

 

...... and here you were ready to remove the entire security system ; as usual its the simplest thing that causes us the most grief. glad it wasn't something more major.

 

Good idea using velcro on the fob to keep it from banging and scratching the bike. I keep the fob in my pocket and just use the key in the ignition. The key still falls out of my lowrider unless I catch it after turning off the ignition...

 

I use to work at a Polaris dealership. Often, people would drop off their atv with complaints of, "will not start". First thing's first... we'd check it out and find the battery was dead, so we'd charge the battery. That alone would fix some of them. Then, once the battery would be completely charged, we'd try to start them. Some would have plenty of cranking power, but just not fire up. Check the gas tank... yep, a few more would be bone-dry. Put a gallon or so in, and a few more would fire right up.

A lot of folks overlook the simplest fundamentals of trouble-shooting. Don't worry, though. You're not the only one to have ever made this mistake. Glad it's all resolved and the bike's back on the road.

 

you could velcro the fob to the frame and run some wire to it from the battery, make sure to use a in line fuse. That way in a couple years you wont have this problem again.

 

Face it, there are plenty of RUBS that just have the money for someone else to handle everything. They call the dealer, who sends a trailer, and the dealer delivers it back with a nice bill. Everyones happy.

To each his own, I would rather do my own wrenching, and if I hit a new issue that I can't figure out, I will ask a question. If I get a bunch of bashing, I know who not to help in the future if THEY have an issue.


Simple as that. To me, anyway.

 

I'm sorry to hear from the members that they've had this inconvenience. This is something to remember. Most of these batteries become exhausted not because they are used to much but because they just become to old. Every battery has what's called an internal leak down rate. After some amount of time the battery will become discharged even though it's not used. So when you buy a new battery if you get a spare at the same time it's likely that it too may be dead when you need it. The amount of current needed to turn your alarm off/on is so minimal that the battery discharge time will be about the same as the battery that it's not being used. The cost of these batteries is minimal that changing it once a year is probably your best and easiest solution. Ride safe

 

Well It finally happened. One fob stopped working,The other fob still did. So I get a couple a batteries I first replaced the first fob (that didn't work). Well It still didn't start the bike. Hmmmm. Get the second fob start the bike. Ok. Replace battery too second fob, ( the one that always worked). Start bike no problem. Get a genious thought and try too reprogramm first fob, I lost pin code. Whoops. No problem I still have the fob in my jeans pocket, now both fobs have fresh batteries and do not start the bike.Best I can figure when I entered the code for all 7's it somehow relinquished my fob codes. I have neighbor and a trailer for that embarrassing ride too the dealer. When I'm done with new manual in tow, I will tatoo the code to my inner thigh lol. j/k.
This was supposed to be a new thread, sorry for the thread jack. Moderators , Please do your thing and fix this error.

 

Ok... So I'm retarded.. I've had problems with my key FOB's for the last few weeks.. They both quit working at the same time. At least within a bout a week of each other.. So I changed batteries in both of them.. Still didn't work.. I was pissed.. But I punched the code in and I could still ride, just a little pain in the *** every time I needed to start the bike.. So anyway, I was reading through the posts here and figured that maybe the new batteries I put in the FOB's had been sitting around in the package for a while and lost their charge before the package was ever opened. I popped the FOB apart to put in another new battery.. And did you know that there are plus and minus signs on the batteries.. And when they don't match up with the plus and minus signs on the inside of the FOB.. It just doesn't work.. But when you flip it around.. WOW.. Imagine that..

Like I said.. Retarded..