There are lessons to be learnt here…
The lad with this R6 had a friend of a friend who looked at it and decided it needed some tweaking to the alarm. He took a load of wires out, shorted a few and in the process cooked the ECU. Oh dear. And the key and key reader with it. We tried all we could to re-wire it to get it going but the loom had been thoroughly butchered. Everywhere we saw new tape we had to pull the loom apart – in effect we took the whole back section of wiring apart and pieced it back together.
Our good friends at Webbs Yamaha in Eye lent us a few key bits so we could problem solve without spending money on parts. In the end it was obvious a new ECU would be needed. The real shame is that this one was too early for us to flash; we can do later models no problem. So we got an American ECU from Track Electronics that was a non-key reader and fitted it – bottom line we got it finished and the bike ran perfectly, but it was a lot of labour and messing about.
We were happy with the job, as was the owner. He was fuming about letting his loom get molested in the first place though…
Want to avoid an £800 bill? Don’t let anybody that doesn’t know what they’re doing touch your bike…
