If there should be any guilt to speak of, it should be on the head of the previous owner that had the callous disregard as to trade in a C14 at a HD dealer!!!.
Making that poor girl sit there with all that chrome and leather fringe. Shivers!
The most constructive thing I can offer is for you to get a good photo of a credit card passive fob and go back to the Harley dealer with it and see if they can find it. It could be sitting
in the sales manager's junk drawer with them having no idea what it is. If you offer a $100.00 reward, (yeah, I know you shouldn't have to, but...) you know they'll look for it.
I'd look all over the bike to see if perhaps the previous owner secretly hid the credit card fob on the bike somewhere, as some do that. I'd also ask the dealer if they'd contact the previous owner to see if he still has the credit card fob. If he says "No, I gave it to you with the bike" then maybe they'll redouble their efforts to find it.
If you can find the credit card fob, then you are getting off the hook considerably cheaper. I lost my active fob but I still had the passive credit card one and now I have an active FOB, a second passive fob, all programed in by the dealer for less than $350.00 total. If you find it, be sure to check back here to get advice about programming your replacements, as not all dealers know how to do it properly. I had to coach mine a bit.
Best wishes.
Thanks, i tried that as well. they are a Harley Davidson dealer, they buy bikes at auction (that is where mine came from) and they dont seem to be to interested in helping a "metric" bike owner.
Thanks for the heads up. My research shows my 2012 requires 2010 thru 2014 ECM.
Thanks, i tried that as well. they are a Harley Davidson dealer[...]they dont seem to be to interested in helping a "metric" bike owner.
Did you offer the $100 reward? Nothing motivates like a monetary incentive.
One can't be tooo careful with one's wording can one?
The fobs pictured. The "passive" fob is 2 1/8" long, 1 1/8" wide & 1/4" thick.
My point is: if the objective is to describe, in words, a lost item to someone, like it was in this thread, comparing it something that it doesn't look like is going to hurt the chances of success, not help.
Point taken, and agreed with. So let's see if we can do better.
Dot-less tournament domino sized passive fob? (not right, but a lot closer than a credit card, I'm still searching.)
Tell me my friends, how long have you been obsessed with the size of your fobs?
Since we found out that size matters, however now we are just trying to give it an accurate descriptive name.
A name that my mother would have liked despite her fob envy problem, and one that would ensure the approval of my father,
but most of all...
....a name that will help max' become comfortable with his passive fob.
"21 1/4 (Twenty-one & a quarter) passive fob", indicating its size but more importantly that it's old enough to drink legally. Probably helpful with this bunch.ding ding ding We have a winner.
No DUIs but uhmmm... anything else happen