KTM Wanted £1000 to fix this £3.30 problem 🤣
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2024
- In this series of two videos we take a look at a KTM690 Duke with terrible running problems. KTM gave the owner a quote of £1000 to fix the issue, in reality it needed a part that cost £3.30!
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And this is why everyone everywhere should be well versed in the right to repair movement. Dealers and companies will extort you to the end of the earth if they are allowed to, we need clear regulations forcing companies to provide repair schematics and diagnostic tools.
Great video!! Makes me appreciate older bikes with carburetors.
Methodical, evidence based troubleshooting. Massively appreciate your videos! Every mechanic should work like that but so few do.
Same with the offroad pumpkins,about as reliable as the British weather lol
Nice video! Please keep them coming. I don't know if the fueling system on this bike and the RC390 are the same, but my 15' RC390 had a starting issue and would also run lean. It turned out that the fuel hose wasn't sealing correctly. Hence, the fuel pressure was incorrect, making it stall and backfire on the declaration. It was also intermittent because the hose would move around, have better sealing at one moment, and be squirting fuel back into the tank the next minute.
Give me a gravity fed set of carbs any day.
Had almost that on a KTM 950 Adventure (carbs) in the summer. The idle would dip down every ten seconds. Sometimes the dip would cause it to stall, other times it would only just recover. It was a new NGK spark plug that caused it.
With the bad plug it would ride alright at high revs, but was playing up at low revs.
watch them ngk's there are counterfit ones out here.
Love these diagnostic vids Jim , so interesting 👍
Motorcycles used to be a cheap form of transportation, that you could service or repair yourself. Now look , and they're saying bike sales are dropping. No sh*t 😅
They still are, cheap as new bikes anyway are and parts are cheap. Western market tends to be speed toys though and the 125 euro segment basically erases the cheap sub 400cc segment in europe..
My 690 wouldn't start at fuel station after refuel. Got it going and limped home popping and banging. Turned out to be fuel pressure relief valve
11k miles on a Duke 3, it's almost new. Your mic is lucky, I'd love to have a muff just laying around 😂 If you're not aware, instead of purchasing a higher pressure relief valve, you can modify the original. And, with the free play in the gears within the throttle body, if you release the tension on the two lower screws holding the stepper motor, you can eliminate all of the free play by gently using a screwdriver between the housing and the stepper motor mounting plate, apply a little pressure, check the play, and retighten.
Really liking the regular vids ol lad
Nice video, thanks Jim.
My ktm Duke did the exact same thing, new spark plug and it will ride brilliant for a few hundred miles, I'll bet the valves need re-shiming, they need adjusting often on these little thumpers
got the same issue .... turns out its the crank sensor going bad .... its already over 100,000km .... its a 2014 Duke 690R
These things vibrates like hell shakes everything to bits
Two words...Merino and wool👍 Loving these vids as always
One is exponentially wiser albeit completely over my head 😂👍👏👌
You know what my spidey-senses tell me……. You change your senses a lot…… 😬
Hi,,loving this channel.
Is it possible to reset the ecu without the ktm software?
What equipment do I need, i have an rc390?
Thanks
KTM,we reckon it stands for kick ten minutes,how come in this day and age manufacturers can't build reliable bikes or cars,they cost a fortune,a selection of them have fuelling problems from new,need re mapping etc, what a waste of time,going back and forwards to dealers workshop's for a fix.
Loved your account of the on the move compression test! Reliable confirmation. From the looks of that plug the fuel mix is fine, neither rich nor lean. But from someone who used to set ignition timing with a Rizla paper and a (hi-tech) trannie radio, that bike is the stuff of nightmares. A malfunctioning electronic hallucinogenic. As sicks6six says, KTMs are overpriced, overhyped and unreliable. In a word, shite.
KTM are typical of today’s problems - there are VERY FEW Tradesmen left. Fewer still “Mechanics”. Not many repair shops remain - they are generally remove, throw away and replace establishments.
great vid loads of info
If this happens to yours, it's your own fault for buying one of their bikes. £1000 for a £3.30 fix? Sounds like KTM learned their trade from Ducati.
KTM get their throttle bodies as complete units from Kehin.
KTM seem to have their share of electrical gremlins, another reason l wouldn’t buy one. Interesting video all the same.
The interesting thing is that most of the sensors are Japanese.
The bikes themselves can be an absolute pain in the arse to work on though and there's a LOT of reports about poor dealership service.
Did that coolant temp sensor show -40 deg?
Hi, good video. I have 2008 690 supermoto with similar issue on my garage now. TPS calibration was bad, fixed. Spark plug cap was dead, fixed. But that didn't solve the problem. I checked the fuel pressure - good. Hmm.......... Then I checked the valve clearances. The intake is clamped. The output is a bad rocker arm. I'm waiting rocker arm now, hope this solves the problem.
KTM eat rockers
@@ritid69
The second gen 690 LC4 bikes are renowned for rocker arm issues.
I had to take back my KTM 4 times under warranty for an engine issue. All the KTM techs did each time was up the idle. They never fixed it due to 'our technicians are only good with mechanical issues, not electronic' My engine would stall randomly, I think it was a fueling issue at mid-low RPM. I sold it and thought fk KTM, never will buy one again.
Been sat since summer and fuel is full of water now maybe?
Great videos, longer the better for me anyway 👍
ktm? Got myself a 1050 adv back in 2016, 60.000km now, never had the slightest problem. guess I am lucky 😅.
Don't forget KTMs' heritage is race bikes and 11k is more than a race bikes life. If youve got a bike with a carby never sell it.
Also bike got better when warm got to be fuel oiling up
Half a gallon of fresh petrol?
WAFNM Simple don’t buy a ktm, 😜
KTM keep taking money, and dealerships on the con lol
Watching video bike sounds like your using E10 not E5 ? Very fluffy pick up
Can you even get that anymore? I thought every where was e10 now
Super unleaded is e5 I think. @@anonymous-ts6bm
I am surprised you didn't go for the Throttle sleeve/lines adjustment first then go after balancing the throttle bodies.
Throttle bodies?? There's only one!
Can you please define throttle sleeve/line's .
@@riccicrozzie8204 I'd also like the answer to that one!
Sorry I didn't realize a 690 was a single cylinder, then it would only be the linkage to the single TB, there would be no balancing.
@@Moto_Plus please tell me you're not a motorcycle mechanic.
I'm curious now what the £3.30 will be spent on. Not the spark plug surely?
Not a spark plug, it's not click bate either, the part to completely fix it really did cost £3.30. All will be revealed in part 2!
Plastic harness connector!
Ah ktm being a ktm
I've got a 45-year-old Honda that runs better than that KTM ever did, I've got a hatred of KTMs from when they switched from dirt bikes to road bikes, they are overpriced, overhyped and unreliable, just my opinion,
Exactement.
KTM are appalling with the reliability issues
So it was not a 3.3 problem...
All these people here with their remarks about ktm reliability electrical gremlins etc probably did not watch part two I guess😅
KTM.kost thousands to maintain
Don't singles just sound great?!
A 690 with a decent exhaust going full throttle is what you wanna be listening to
Made in India 😬
What’s the £3.30 fix
You're going to have to wait until part 2, same time next week!
@@SuperbikeSurgeryTV looking forward to it already..
@@SuperbikeSurgeryTV That's some cheap labour!
Quite fancied one of these but this video made up my mind not to buy KTM.
Typical KTM if you buy a KTM be prepared to look after it yourself because the AD’s are crap in my experience they are over priced when you consider the aftercare I’ve repaired all of my problems on my SMCR myself they are the Range Rover of the bike world best just go Japanese, mind you when it works it brings a smile to my face but its not very often
Bad name
I liked the video I did not like the EFFING
Doe's that make sence? stop saying that!
Stop spelling like that!
😂
Jim, never, ever do a wheelie on camera again, mate. Delete this comment, also.
😂 Don't really think that counts as a wheelie to be honest, 4" off the ground 🤔 🤣
@@SuperbikeSurgeryTV Be careful mate. Do your homework and consider deleting the video. Sorry to be a nag, mate.
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@@SuperbikeSurgeryTV He'll have a heart attack if he popped over to my channel 🤣🤣🤣
@@SuperbikeSurgeryTV Careful mate, he's the sort of genius to make a nuisance of himself at a vaccination centre... He might come make a nuisance of himself for you too xD
Sorry; had to stop watching because of your frequent bad language. I was watching with my eight year old daughter….
Handle bars are not centered correctly
I wondered if anyone would notice! 😁👍