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Seat frame shorting battery

Mike.C

Mike.C

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Quote from Ackers on ADVRider who wrote
The day I picked it up I noticed that the seat had been fitted on the lowest setting, so I undid the bolts and, as I slid the seat backwards there was an almighty flash and lots of smoke. The steel seat mounting bars had worn through the positive battery cable and created a dead short from the battery to earth. It atomised one of the cables and I had to effect a temporary repair which diverted the cables away from the offending lump of rough steel
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Might be worth a look under the seat if you've got a Stelvio in the shed.
 
Can't be the seat frame / pan, it is plastic. I can see where someone could put a cable on the battery wrong and get it into the frame where the seat pins go.
 
Sorry for the delay - I have been too busy trying to get may Stelvio running to sort out my login with Todd!!

Yes I am the guy who has been venting my frustrations on ADVrider.

In respect of the cable shorting I have subsequently found that the dealer that prepped the bike when I bought it has routed the battery cables wrongly (as well as failing to do the starter motor relay removal recall and not swapping the plug caps during the cam follower recall - if indeed he did the recall at all!).

He had put the cables to the outsides of the of the battery (i.e. +ve to the left and -ve to the right of the battery rather than running down the 'top' of the inclined battery).

The metal seat mounting posts, which lets be honest are not the most refined finished items on the bike , then effectively sawed through the insulation. Ot was an impressive firework display as it shorted before the fuse so there was no cutout until the cable vapourised. If the seat hadnt been on and off so much because of the two failed starter motors and the alternator failure and the stripped earth strap 'bolt-hole' then it might have taken years to happen. In my case it took 4 weeks!!!!

The thing that really annoys me now is that because it happened 50 minutes after I had picked the bike up after the first starter motor replacement (which took three weeks to fix) I fixed the blown cable myself. I am sure this might come back to haunt me now that I am in the early stages of legal action against the original supplying dealer. My fix is now much less noticable with heat shrunk shrouding and no blue connectors but it is still there and it worrys me.

I have still not made my mind up about the bike and I think that if given the option of refund or replacement I might still go for the refund!
 
I'm getting my Stelvio in the crate, so if you have any pics about correct routing of the battery cables and any info on 09 recalls, I'm all ears!!! So far from reading this forum it looks like the speed sensor is a real gem :laugh:
 
Stelvioman wrote:
I'm getting my Stelvio in the crate, so if you have any pics about correct routing of the battery cables and any info on 09 recalls, I'm all ears!!! So far from reading this forum it looks like the speed sensor is a real gem :laugh:
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If you are getting an ABS Stelvio, then it uses the ABS pickup for the speed, and doesn't have the other "gem".
At least I assume Guzzi have dome the same on this as on all their other ABS equipped bikes.
 
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