I just had a thought... lol

This has been happening pretty much since I moved to a new house and it happens at home ...but it also happens on the road, anywhere I go.

Here's the thing.... my old house didn't have an automatic garage door so I never carried a garage door opener with me. With the new home, I always carry the garage door opener in the same pocket or on me in general so could that possibly be causing ref interference with the key fob and tssm?

This is the only possible thing I can think of.

 

Easy way to find out.
Leave it at home.

 

I realize that. Lol

I actually went to my garage and put the opener inside (I usually leave the opener and key fob in my helmet on a shelf next to my bike).

The bike started right up. Rolled it outside...again started right up.

So....it seems that the garage door opener is interfering with the key fob and tssm somehow. I didn't even realize that was possible. I wonder if anyone else that carries their garage door opener on them has an issue?

 

hopefully thats all it is and not a coincidence that it did start. is your opener one of those rolling code styles ?

i hang my opener on the w/shield bag and its never caused a issue. mine isn't one of those rolling code styles though.


i always wonder about electrical interference since i had a problem child crv in the shop one day. the guys TPMS light kept coming on with no codes stored and that we couldn't duplicate. anyways, after looking at it a few times the guy finally came in with the light on so we could see it. i hop in the drivers seat, close the door and start to bring it in the shop when i notice a humming noise.. the guy had a power inverter in the center console to power up his kids games. i turned it off and the light went out after driving it about 100 feet for the module to receive good signals.

 

I have no idea if its the rolling code kind. Lol Its about 5-6 years old (same with the home) and I believe the newere garage doors are the rolling code kind. So maybe the opener is sending out ref signals which is causing it to interfere with my team seeing my key fob?

I'm gonna check it again in a little while because I am going on a little 60 mile ride and I won't carry my garage door opener with me. If I have no problems, that's has to be what it was.

 

hope it starts for ya out on the road.. good luck .

 

Thanks, I'll report back.

 

What i did was bought a manual read everything i could on alarm system,under the tank on the right side is a plug that controls the whole system so i unplugged it, problem solved no more complicated alarm system.

 

Well, I'm not positive yet but I believe my battery was just bad....since it only lasted 6 months. It wasn't the garage door opener because it cranked OK when I left the house but when I got to the first dealer, when I went to leave it did the same thing...wouldnt start for about a minute, then cleared and let me start. Drove it to another dealer (where I know the service manager pretty well) and he said it would be possible that the battery is going bad (although that doesn't explain why it wouldn't let me do the alarm system override). He said the TSSM could be going bad too, but its hard to say for sure. I changed the battery anyway, went to the bike and it started right up. Went by and got gas, got on and it started right up again. So overall, I really have no idea what's going on. LOL

If it keeps starting from here on out, I can only guess the battery just wasn't very good....he said they have gotten some "Not so good batteries" in the past and said if it was him, he would go by a durecell or along those lines. He doesn't seem to think to highly of the Harley Sony batteries.

 

if u really want to turn it off - ask the dealer to put it in service mode