... I thought it was the stuck spring again, so I gave her some good whacks. Then I got the following error on the screen, "SUBKEY ID ERROR".
Absolutely no response from the bike, whatsoever. I took the battery to a parts store. Tested good. Replaced the battery in the fob. No change. Put a new master 30 amp fuse in, same.
They called in a Kaw rep, who came and did his diagnosis.
Keys have been reprogrammed and the parts have supposedly removed and tested good. The other FOB, which was 100 miles away at the time of failure, also give that error code. So I'm confident the FOB's aren't the culprits.
sounds like none of the people at the dealer, nor rep, involved in the analysis are versed well on the KDS 3 protocol...
Subkey ID Error can be analyzed thru the KDS in the "realtime monitor program" within the KDS protocol.
Sorry for the absence. Work has my head spinning right now.
The passive feature was tried on site. The FOBs were all given new batteries. A new battery was tried in the bike at the dealer. It will not respond at all, except for the SUBKEY ID ERROR on the screen. If I remember correctly, the guy said KDS was not able to connect. All involved are stumped. The 'whacks' on the stove key were a version the KIPASS rock/stuck spring bypass. Obviously, the stuck spring isn't the problem.
My only question is how did this problem just creep up all of the sudden? Worked fine for 11 years. Sat for 5 days, then failure.
We're starting to hear about bad connections creeping in on the older bikes or if they are near salt water. Typically this occurs where multiple grounds meet up or rodent damage.
I believe I eluded to the necessity, when searching, for unplugging and re-plugging in, every connector; a "couple of times", on every harness between the main ignition switch, and every ECU in the system, to insure they are "well connected", by the "scraping" action between the metallic parts of the connector plugs...