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Air Pirate · 09-21-2009, 12:45 PM

i just got a 2008 675 with 3500 miles on it. the battery runs dead while i ride it. i brought it back to the dealer to have them take a look at it. the dealer had said that the alternator was working and they suspect it is the factory alarm that is doing it so they took it off and are going to install a new one under warantee.

they let me take the bike untill the new alarm comes in though. while i was riding it just yesterday, the same thing happened. so it clearly isnt the alarm that was the problem. they arent open today though so i have to wait to tomorrow to tell them, but in the mean time, has anyone else had this problem? what could it be?

TripleThreat · 09-21-2009, 10:47 PM

Probably a regulator/rectifier issue. Fairly common problem, especially if you don't keep your battery hooked up to a battery tender in between rides.

Agkistrodon · 09-22-2009, 03:35 PM

what he said

DAYTONA KID · 09-22-2009, 10:34 PM

Welcome to the club, my 2008 Daytona has done the same thing twice. We went for a 80 mile ride and bike died when riding back to town. We took it to the closest Dealer 170 miles away and they replaced the regulator/rectifier and checked it all out. All was said to be fine altenator is now putting out 14.1 volts to keep battery charged. Took it out for a ride 15 miles from home and it died again battery is dead had to call Kawsaki Dealer to put on their trailer to get home what fun. Now we will drive 170 miles back to the dealer and let them try to fix it again. Talking to other bike Mechanics, their view was altenator was burning out regulator and then battery goes dead because sytem won't work without regulator. Dealer also put in NEW Battery so its not Battery. The factory has had enough problems with this as they knew of the problems. Another thought is something is drawing down battery and system fails to correct. Meanwhile I am going to tell the Dealer to leave it in his shop for 2 weeks and drive it 12 or 15 miles every other day and they can find the problem as I won't pick it up untill they have put 100 plus miles on it over a week or two. My 1947 Harly Knucklehead can sit 3 weeks and I can put 500 miles on it and it won't let me down even wisth a 5 year old battery,.

Agkistrodon · 09-23-2009, 04:25 AM

sorry to hear you had this problem too but it is not common. i have a 06 with 22Kmiles(second graphite in north texas) the origional battery, and reg rec. I also have an 07 with the origional reg rec but I had to buy it a battery as I bought it totaled and it did not come with one. I have seen a failed reg rec one time when i worked at the local triumpoh dealer.

Air Pirate · 10-04-2009, 09:21 AM

yeah, thats exactly what the problem turned out to be. all fixed now and it runs alike a dream.

DAYTONA KID · 10-30-2009, 12:26 AM

I got Daytona 675 back from dealer today, second regulator replaced with new one from England as they were out in U.S. They said this has been a problem on some bikes. Mechanic said 2010 the regulator was moved to get more air to keep it cool. It's too cold to ride bike more than 1 mile, we will see when it warms up if bike runs good. Mechanic and Dealer were GREAT to work with, they kept Bike for several weeks and rode it 75 miles per my request to make sure it didn't burn out again.