New Battery...Still No Start

[dannylightning]

well im glad to hear they usually don't cost that much, when i need one that is probably something i will go to the shop for.

messing with valves seems kind of scary.

[Water Warrior 2]

Originally Posted by dannylightning

well im glad to hear they usually don't cost that much, when i need one that is probably something i will go to the shop for.

messing with valves seems kind of scary.

Danny, your V-twin is about double the time involved.

[dannylightning]

Originally Posted by Water Warrior

Danny, your V-twin is about double the time involved.

o rats, 75 bucks a hour times 2..... never thought about that.

[GZ250]

my dealership charges $75/hr for valve adjustment and last time they charged for 1.5 hrs. It was over $100 something. So how much time is realistic/justified for GZ? Next time I was thinking that I will tell them that I will pay only for an hr.

battery issue: sometime the new batteris also turn out bad. i had the similar experience, the battery simply stopped holding charge. (you will know that by load test).

[Maggie May]

Hi everyone, thanks for all the responses. Sorry about the delay in responding. After my original post here, my fiancee and I read through some more of the forums and found a lot of people with similar problems. Sure enough, when we bought the new battery, the store said it shouldn't need to be charged. They threw it on the charger for about 20-30 minutes and said we were good to go. We put it on the bike and... well, that's when I put up the original post. We had Advance order another battery to replace this one. When we took it by to exchange, they tested the one from the week before and said it just needs a recharge... to which we informed them that we had charged it, and it would NOT hold a charge. They did an override and gave us the new battery. We took it home, put the acid in, and put it on the charger for about 8 hours. We let it sit for about an hour, then slapped it in the bike and fired her up, and all seems fine now.

Good to know that sometimes the simplest answer is the best. Thanks again. We'll have to look into the valve noise issue a little deeper and see what's going on there, but for the moment, we're back on the road. Thanks again. :biggrin:

[mrlmd1]

That's always the case with those batteries - glad it worked out just like I told you. It's usually something very simple and not the more exotic things that fail. These bikes are very reliable and it would be unusual for a 2001 bike to have a bad stator or regulator or other major electrical component crap out all by itself. You should go back and teach those guys at the battery store how to handle and care for what they sell and not just try to get rid of you or other customers if they don't know anything about their product. If they advised you right the first time, and you had fully charged it up first, they would have saved you some unnecessary aggravation and themselves the cost of a new battery.

[Easy Rider]

Originally Posted by mrlmd1

You should go back and teach those guys at the battery store how to handle and care for what they sell and not just try to get rid of you or other customers if they don't know anything about their product.

Mmmmm.....yea.....right !!

Depends on how you handle it, of course, but I can think of a couple of places where that would get you a good ass kicking. :shocked:

[Water Warrior 2]

Easy, it isn't what you say but how you say it. If you are polite, well mannered and use nice language you can call people and their mother just about anything.