I thought I would share this wonderful experience with everyone. I went riding on Friday and most part of the day I was having some intermittent electrical issues. Gauges flashing, randumb check engine lights, just plain old weird ****. Towards the end of the day I went off a jump and upon landing my guages flashed a check engine code and light. So I shut off the sled and checked everything and found nothing. When I went to start it back up it was like it was running on 1 cylinder and I could not keep it running. So we towed it out and got back to the truck my buddy say's " watch it will run fine now". Sure enough I pull the rope and my sled starts right up and runs fine. On our way home we stop at the dealer to see if a code was thrown up and nothing really. The tech couldn't find anything wrong because the sled was running fine. He mentioned the tail light. I started the day with it working when we looked I had nothing. So when I got home then next day I pulled the tail light out and the bulb was gone. Totally shattered no big deal right. Upon further inspection I found 1 of the filament wires was longer and pulled against the base. I put it back in just the way I found it with the wire touching the base and started the sled. Same results as on the hill. Sled ran like garbage. I removed the light base from the tail light and started the sled and it ran great. There had to be a perfect storm of errors to make this happen. I cannot think of why doo would design a electrical system that would allow this to happen. I doesn't make any sense. A tail light would have been the last thing I would have thought to check. I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else. Just another thing to check when your sled dies on the hill in the middle of no where. A dollar fifty light bulb takes out a ten thousand dollar machine. That's some good thinking thanks Doo!
Broken tail light takes out sled.
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tukernater
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Once again DOO is to blamed for human error,a dead short is a dead short.people want technolgy.did BRP break your tail light?
I would hardly call a broken tail light "human error". Bulbs break now and again. It does seem a little weird that it the tail light would jack the electrical system up so bad. Can you imagine spending all kinds of time and money on chasing an electrical gremlin only to find out that it was a tail light?Once again DOO is to blamed for human error,a dead short is a dead short.people want technolgy.did BRP break your tail light?
Well apparently tukernater is so f-in smart that he knew it was the problem before you even posted the thread and your just a friggen idiot for not knowing
Some people just like to hear themselves talk....Dunno who was blaming anything just informing on what can happen out in the field. Now go get yer panties out of your ***!
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Red-eye
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I have seen a bulb short on a many machine and cause wierd problems. No ones fault, have seen it on cars too. Now autos have the wires feed back to the ecm to tell them that there is a problem. That would cost you lots on sleds, is it worth it? Good info to put on here though!
^^^^Exactly.
Mid 90's auto's...some of them would get stuck in park when a brake light bulb would burn out. The ECM would have to see the brake pedal switch be depressed before it (the ECM) would send a signal to the shift interlock solenoid to allow a garage shift out of park. Any interuption or comprimise in the brake switch and brake light circuit, a stuck in park symptom occurred. The auto oems got smart pretty quick and don't wire their auto's this way anymore. Too many tow bills for burned out brake light bulbs.
It amazes me that a sled with E-tec technology doesn't have fuses. If the sled makers would start fusing things like tail lights, brake lights, hand warmers, etc. then these type of stupid and very wierd issues would go away not to mention other expensive electrical items and modules that can get damaged. I've been preaching to fuse these items for years now.
I was posting this in the hopes that it could help some of you guys out one of these days. I would have never though to look at the tail light but thanks to Mark at Lifestyles he sent me in the right direction. So props to them for getting me in Late on a Friday and helping me with the problem. A great bunch of guys.
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tukernater
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THAT WAS SOME GOOD THINKING THANKS DOO?I'm sorry I guess I assumed you were blaming BRP.
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summit_man
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Sounds like a good heads up. Ya know . EFI sleds have the same issues. My buddy spent a whole trip trying to figure out his m7 and how it was running on one cylinder and after a whole wasted trip. It was a hand warmer that was shorting. Very awesome you let people know another easy possibility that could save an entire trip out west!!!!
Sounds like a good heads up. Ya know . EFI sleds have the same issues. My buddy spent a whole trip trying to figure out his m7 and how it was running on one cylinder and after a whole wasted trip. It was a hand warmer that was shorting. Very awesome you let people know another easy possibility that could save an entire trip out west!!!!
