Poll: Has your ECU failed?

[Rockmeister]

I keep reading about people afraid that if they change anything with their handwarmers that they will fry their ECU (Electronic Control Unit).

Personally, I am not convinced the ECUs are that frail.
However, best bet is ask you guys!

Has your ECU failed?

And if so, what were the circumstances, and what do you believe caused the failure?

 

[big_red1a]

I have had problems but no failure. I get a lot of codes and err's seems to always "limp home". I think it has to do with moisture in the connectons. once dry it works fine. I am 100% stock no handle bar changes

 

[Budweiser]

06 Attak. No issues. Updated handlebar warmers. (they are still not that good...)

 

[LJ 452]

The problem is the ECU's like most electronics have a life cycle. If may be a hundred-thousand hours it may be million, know one knows except for the OEM and Yamaha, and I doubt you'll get an answer from either. With overloading (asuming that's what some are doing) you basically shorten the life span. Again, by how much is anyones guess. If you've got a few hundred bucks burning a hole in your pocket, feel free to test it. My view is that the season is too short to risk waiting for a new ECU and possibly being stranded. If it goes it may not even effect the EFI portion of the unit but who knows. I would like to think that if and when it goes, only the grip circuit would be effected and you would simply loose the warmers and an error code would flash, that's it. My thought I'll let someone else find that out. JMO.

 

[ahicks]

I think it's a fair question. I don't think anyone would argue there's potential for problems with it, but if there's no history of the problem with the reader/user base here, the potential is pretty well minimized?

 

[Crewchief47]

Hope that covers most of the possible selections

 

[marq]

I couldn't venture a guess on the hours, but I've got about 2000 miles on my Apex running the Rockerdan "handle bar mod" with zero problems.

 

[favarcat]

About 5500 miles with the handlebar mod w/ no issues.

 

[vx700xtc]

4000 miles on 07 Attak with 06 bars no issue
1400 miles on 06 with home made harness no issues
combined total of 5400 miles of nice warm hands.

 

[Rockmeister]

Thanks Chief & Guys that have responded so far.

This isn't a debate by the way, its a poll to find out some real life experiences.


To the one that responded that your ECU failed.
Could you give us more info please?
Did it fail totally?
What mods had you done?
How many miles, etc?

Thanks!

 

[Rockmeister]

I have had problems but no failure. I get a lot of codes and err's seems to always "limp home". I think it has to do with moisture in the connectons. once dry it works fine. I am 100% stock no handle bar changes

You can get electrical dielectric grease to help prevent corrosion and moisture intrusion.

They sell it at NAPA.

Hope this helps!

 

[Rockmeister]

Hmmmm...
Over 480 people has read this and only about 38 have answered the poll...

I suspect the ones that didn't answer have had no ECU issues.

Also suspect that the one that did respond they had an issue, was the intermittent one that really isn't an ECU failure issue.

So at this point, there is no one on here that has had an ECU fail?

So far I would venture to say that the ECU really isn't all that frail.

If this was a "W" arm failure poll, the result would be quite different...

Even if one ECU out of 480 did fail, that's about a .2% failure rate, an amazingly low number for most any part.

 

[Crewchief47]

I'm going to poke a small hole in your math. 480 views doesn't really mean 480 people. It's 480 views. I've probably been 5-10 of them and most anyone who has answered the poll will have checked back at least once to see the #'s.

 

[Rockmeister]

Fair enough.
Still a pretty small percentage, if it was even a failure. : )~

PS You stalking us? lol

 

[sobfrogg]

I keep looking,
Got no probs witht he ECU. But you know how I HATE to mess with my stock sled