No idle and high idle problem

redbarron

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I bought my 2012 Super Ten this past June. It's been over 100 degrees here in Texas so I only put about 300 miles on my Big Blue Beast. Rode my bike 3 days to work this week and noticed a sticky idle. Meaning it behaved as if the throttle cables were getting pinched on a carburated bike. The idle was erratic up and down, died several times, hard to restart and tweeky.
I wanted to say Thank You to all of you who posted here because it was a huge time saver! Went by my local Yamaha dealerr and informed him of what the symptoms were and that there was an outstanding recall on the wire harness. He checked my VIN and the previous owner I'm guessing, decided to pass the problem on to the other guy, which turned out to be me. Got the harness ordered and will be scheduling my Recall service to be done soon. I'll update the differences when I return...hope it's a night and day difference and idles smooth as butter.
KP from Dallas
2012 Yamaha Super Tenere - Blue
1981 BMW R100RS Red/Black Smoke
2005 Suzuki DRZ 400S - Blue


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Just dropped my S10 off to have the new wiring harness installed. Will update after I pick it back up. Fingers crossed that this corrects the problem.

KP

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redbarron

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Just dropped my S10 off to have the new wiring harness installed. Will update after I pick it back up. Fingers crossed that this corrects the problem.

KP

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Can't believe what a difference that harness has made. Thinking back it died twice at the dealer and of course the tech rode it and it was fine until it wasn't...it's smooth, responsive and fires up everytime. Thanks again for this thread.

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escapefjrtist

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Can't believe what a difference that harness has made. Thinking back it died twice at the dealer and of course the tech rode it and it was fine until it wasn't...it's smooth, responsive and fires up everytime. Thanks again for this thread.
Glad it worked out! That was my experience as well with my recalled '12. Although it seemed to run fine before, after the fix it was like getting a new bike.

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SmokinRZ

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I'm about to take a 4,000 mile trip during the 1st week in May and my bike has been having the no-idle high-idle issue. The dealer has been trying to get the recall harness from Yamaha for several weeks now and I don't think it will get here in time. I'm debating going on the trip anyway. Has anyone been stranded by this? Trying to decide what to do.
 

SmokinRZ

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I'm leaning towards going. The bike has had one hard start condition after the dealer doing the inspection left the key on. It had the jerky running condition like shown in the you tube video. When I got home and restarted it, it ran just fine then. I've been riding it to work every day and it has stalled only once.
 

Ramseybella

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It's a wiring issue and Yamaha knows about it.. I had to chase them around for months U.S.A. Yamaha. Fianaly had a tech com out and installed the new wiring and it was all cleared.
Note: it's not the whole harness.
 

SmokinRZ

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The wiring harness came in a few days before the trip, took it in on a Wednesday and they got it done by Friday. No issues for 2,700 miles. However, the vibration between 3K and 4K rpm was really bad. Ordered the revised clutch basket hoping that it will cure that.
 
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