Joined Jan 2015
330 Posts | 1+
London
So I've just got my Hyper back from the dealer after having the dashboard disco light inducing failure of the front coil and subsequent frying of the ECU & Dash.
Only took "˜em six weeks to get it done! Mind you, the latter two seemed to be spent trying to get a 24 hour activation code from Ducati so that the mileage could be copied across to the new dashboard. Or at least getting it at a time when it wouldn't expire before they could use it. It's been a right royal pain in the *** "“ I even managed to crash my Fireblade (just a little off) as I had to pull it out of storage due to the Duc going pop.
SO"¦. For the sake of hoping to help others avoid having to go through this clusterfuck of a situation, as well as hoping to avoid it happening to me again at some point in the future, I'd really like to open up a discussion about any preventative measures we can put in place that might mitigate the chance of this happening.
I know kuksul had managed to hook the bike up to an oscilloscope and thus had been able to observe voltage spikes coming from the front coil pack. I'm secretly hoping that the part # has been updated to a new one, since Ducati seem to be fully aware of this issue. The shop said they've had to done a bunch of these (1 in 1000 my arse..). I'd be happy to pull my new coil and check the part #, but I'm not sure what the original # is to compare.
Does anyone in the know about electrics think this could be and earthing or perhaps water penetration issue? Any current working theories as to what could be the root cause of this issue?
It's really shaken my confidence in regards to keeping this bike long term"¦
Only took "˜em six weeks to get it done! Mind you, the latter two seemed to be spent trying to get a 24 hour activation code from Ducati so that the mileage could be copied across to the new dashboard. Or at least getting it at a time when it wouldn't expire before they could use it. It's been a right royal pain in the *** "“ I even managed to crash my Fireblade (just a little off) as I had to pull it out of storage due to the Duc going pop.
SO"¦. For the sake of hoping to help others avoid having to go through this clusterfuck of a situation, as well as hoping to avoid it happening to me again at some point in the future, I'd really like to open up a discussion about any preventative measures we can put in place that might mitigate the chance of this happening.
I know kuksul had managed to hook the bike up to an oscilloscope and thus had been able to observe voltage spikes coming from the front coil pack. I'm secretly hoping that the part # has been updated to a new one, since Ducati seem to be fully aware of this issue. The shop said they've had to done a bunch of these (1 in 1000 my arse..). I'd be happy to pull my new coil and check the part #, but I'm not sure what the original # is to compare.
Does anyone in the know about electrics think this could be and earthing or perhaps water penetration issue? Any current working theories as to what could be the root cause of this issue?
It's really shaken my confidence in regards to keeping this bike long term"¦
Unfortunately no one seems to have access to the original parts to compare or dissect.
