I went to Biketoberfest in Daytona this weekend and my trip got cut short because on the ride in I lost my headlights. I looked down to check my speed and noticed my "High Beam" indicator light was on. Looked at the switch and the switch was in the "Low Beam" postion. When I parked the bike I noticed I had no lights. Tried to turn the switch to "High Beam" postion, and still no headlights. I checked the fuse in the "Lights" position, and it was still good. All my other lights are working fine, Blinker, Tail, Stop... Does this mean I have blown bulbs? The bike is a '03 XB9R
It means you have a short somewhere. I would check everything under the front fairing first. Esp the white connector. This happened to me a week ago and i tore down the whole bike only to find out it was the front connector.
If thats not it, just start tracing the wires back, looking for burns or cuts.
Also what might help is pulling the bike somewhere quite and put your head by the front fairing and turn the key on. You might here a small fizzing noise. Located it and fix it.
this happened to me too. although it was the first place i looked. I pulled the connector to check for voltage and the plug was melted around the ground pin. cleaned up the connector and i was back in business.Esp the white connector. This happened to me a week ago and i tore down the whole bike only to find out it was the front connector.
I did wash the bike before I took it to Daytona, but it worked after the bike was washed and worked almost the whole way there. I will check all the conections under the farring when I get home from work. I thought that was very uncommon for both lights to "blow" at the same time.
What is the "trick" to taking off the front fairing without breaking the headlight beseils? I am affraid they will be weak do to age and the heat from the lights.
Mirrors, turn signals, and the bottom 2 screws for the windscreen need to be removed. Why are you trying to remove the headlight bezels?
I just have herd that when you take the fairing off those come off as well? I couldnt see why they would need to come off but that is what I have read on here. Maybe it was just to try to paint them or something.
I checked all the connections that I could last night without takeing the fairing off, and all were good and tight and no corrotion on anything. The bike has always been garage kept and everything is very clean throughout.
I did notice on a night ride home from the gym that my low beam was starting to flicker on and off. I always run with my high beams on all the time day and night so I guess it is possible that both could blow at the same time.
Are the high and low beams connected in a continual cercit so that is the low beam is blown the high will not work at all?
they run independent, just make a new ground wire for them if you don't want to tear things apart to run down the wire issue. otherwise check the pins like the other guys state above.
Checked the pins and they are fine. Good connection and no corrotion. Havent taken the fairing off yet to check the bulbs to see if they are blown. Going to try and do that tonight.
Just a FYI you don't have to take off the fairing to check the bulbs.
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