RE: Urgent battery help needed! - 3

Both batteries fit the R1200RS (after removing the foam spacer). The YTX14H offers 240 CCA, while the YTX14 is rated at 200 CCA. So, the YTX14H should provide more cold start charge/capacity.

Thanks. In other words living in Southern Spain, the less powerful battery should be completely fine.

Zitat von spainy im Beitrag #32

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Thanks. In other words living in Southern Spain, the less powerful battery should be completely fine.

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so had my bike serviced in mid august and haven't really used it since, a couple of weeks ago was going to use it and battery was completely discharged so put it on the trickle charger and charged up, left the trickle charger off the bike to see if it would hold its charge that was 2 weeks ago just went to start the bike and the battery is dead again. bike is 14 months old so going to call the dealer should this be covered under warranty ? no accessories fitted to the bike

Dealer diagnostics should find be able to locate the bad circuit/computer board that's creating the parasitic drain.

well spoke to the dealer on Saturday morning explained the bike is only 14 months old and first question was do you have a tracker fitted to which i replied yes it came fitted to the bike when i brought it new from you guys . ah well if you haven't kept the subscription up you can bring the bike up and we can remove it for half an hours labour , i said really ! you fitted the tracker or it came out of the factory with it i didn't spec it or ask for one to be fitted so i won't be paying to have it removed, he said only option is to remove or renew subscription to stop it sending a signal every 15 seconds . so thanked him for being so helpfully (won't be buying another from them) .
so decided to have a quick look myself lifted up pillion seat and there is a sticker saying datatool fitted, etc seen some wiring which didn't look like it was factory fit and followed that back to the section between pillion and riders seat and there it was stuck down with double sided tape probably took me 2 minutes in total to remove glad i didn't renew the subscription for it anyone pinching the bike could remove it within 2 minutes. absolute joke it is supposed to be buried deep in the bike i was thinking i would have to remove panels, etc to get to it .

Awful service from the dealer. Name and shame.

So did the dealer confirm that it's the Datatag unit that is draining the battery? (sorry I assume that's the brand of OEM item?)

Since I removed the data tool tracker unit the battery has been ok .