Got all dressed up this morning for a great ride on a beautiful day … turn signals flashing and a horrible sound like screeching metal when I push the start button, fob has new battery. Help please is always appreciated
Got all dressed up this morning for a great ride on a beautiful day … turn signals flashing and a horrible sound like screeching metal when I push the start button, fob has new battery. Help please is always appreciated
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Screeching like your anti theft alarm? Or a mechanical, metallic sound coming from the starter?
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Don’t have an audible alarm on the Trike … just electronics disconnect … the screeching starter ish kinda sound … pretty loud. Scared me at first
"I Should've Been A Cowboy"
Current Ride 2017 HD FLRT Freewheeler
Sounds like a starter drive to me, most of the time when they go bad, they will Screech. Is the battery good ? How old is it ?
Luckily the battery was dead. We got the Trike about a year and a half ago with what I think is the original HD battery. Put in a new one and was hesitant to push start because the noise was wicked ... started right up, everything nice again. Sorta kinda glad to put in a new one with a new "use by" date
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If you got 6+ years out of the stock battery you did pretty good. Glad it didn't happen on the road for you.
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Glad it didn't happen on the road for you.
Yep, most of the time that's where it usually happens.
As batteries age they have a tendency to lose flakes off their plates that sink to the bottom of their respective cells. When a plate has lost enough flakes the new flake falling off will short out between the positive and negative plates and that cell 'dies' so you no longer have a stout 14+ volts feeding the starter. That's why the battery was "good" one one start but not the next.
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