Hi all,
I had a call from a BMW Club member about a problem with his F800 GS (2008). He was waiting at traffic lights and as he began to accelerate away the bike stalled and the engine cut out. He turned the ignition off and back on and watched the usual self check sequence and tried to restart the bike. It wouldn't start. He then noticed that the oil light was flashing all the time.
He decided to have the bike recovered as he didn't want to ride it if there was low oil pressure. At home he started to investigate and found the fuel pump to be failed, which he replaced. I lent him a GS-911 to have a read of the faults, which he did before resetting them (no he didn't make a note of the faults). So no faults recoerded, but the oil light was still flashing.
Thinking it was a faulty sensor he bought another one and fitted it. The same problem of the oil light flashing was still there. Using the GS-911 Output Test functions he exercised the instrument cluster, but noticed there was not a test for the oil light.
He had a few distractions along the way in that when he replaced the oil sender he incorrectly installed the throttle cable in the outer groove of the mechaniosm, so when he went to start the bike it immediately revved up. He was at the time wanting to start the bike so that it relearned the adaptations as he had fitted a replacement idle actuator (another distraction).
So if the GS-911 doesn't have an output test for the oil light, has anyone come across this flashing issue before, and if so, what was the cause.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mike