What the heck...? By luckydog (Read 754 times)

[luckydog]

So I bought a CFMoto Echarm a while back and had some strange problems.

I bought it new from a dealer and noticed that RANDOMLY the engine would start losing power and start hesitating. Then, when I would keep driving through it (im on warranty, I'll try to ride it untill it breaks) thing got even worse; the blinkers would start sputtering rather than blinking. After a while even the sputtering would stop and I would just have no blinkers period. BUT... if I apply my brakes when I have the blinkers on while its losing power, the blinkers work.... once I let go of the brakes the blinkers crap out again.

after this happens I'll usually kill the engine and restart. It almost never starts up again when it happens... it might crank a little (actually, today it made a grinding noise) but it wont actually start up.

Ill roll it back and forth a little bit and leave it alone for a few minutes and it will start back up and act like nothing ever happened.

Then ill turn it off and start up again the next day and ill see the same problems (sometimes 30 miles down the road!)

WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!!?!?!

My dealer already replaced the CDI, Voltage regulator/rectifier and starter relay...

I thought I was good but now its starting to happen again!!!

Help me out guys!

[♔Big Guy♔]

Your dealer should know that you're having a ground issue. Tell him/her to check the ground wires on the scooter. You either have a bad ground somewhere or a short of power to ground somewhere. All of this by the way should be checked/resolved in the PDI before the scooter is delivered.


-Rich

[luckydog]

So I finally got the problem fixed after about 20 hours at the dealer. They said it was a bad (severly corroded) ignition solenoid. They found a short near the steering column, too.

[mthomas]

Dead nuts on again Big Guy