u/TurnixTreron

Ok I had the worst luck with buying a second hand bike. First the engine seizure and now there were some wiring issues which are still preventing me from getting it back. The wiring was messed up when PO attached a manual fan-switch and thermostat display. It was fixed but the fuel pump has been flagged as the problem preventing the bike from running correctly when tuning on the dyno. They said it's been tampered with but I would've thought, a rebuild kit for 100 usd would be the ticket but they said best to replace the whole oem unit (i dont have full details on what's going on with this fuel pump but PO denied anyone doing anything to it). Has anyone had to buy a 500usd fuel pump instead of buying the rebuild kits?

I got a second hand 2021 450RL with 5,200 miles last weekend. The past owner seemed to have looked after it and there were no major red flags apart from a bad supermoto set-up with chain slapping the rear tire. I rode it about 110miles so far and the other day the engine seized going 75 on a highway. Rear wheel fully locked up and I was skidding out of control for long stretch. I narrowly missed hitting another vehicle. The only things I had done were change the oil and filter with a specified amount (I rode it 4 times after this) and I changed settings on the vortex ecu (old firmware ~2021) from gentle enduro to a trail settings and moved the trim from 6,6,6 to 5,5,5. I was banking on it being a reliable platform as I haven't read anybody having an engine seizing on the RL models but now I have no engine so I honestly wish i wasn't here.

Can anyone assist I can't find the plug for the light sensor switch on the rear. I found one plug on the right side but I think it may have been for the deleted side-stand switch.

How necessary are these? I'm looking at bike that had a thermostat delete and they had a temp gauge on the dash. I don't like the appearance of it above the gauge, would it be ok to just take it out?

Bike has a vortex ecu, I think I will go find a place to update the firmware

Bought this second hand and it was obviously not looked after too good. I rode it for a year and it was using a lot of oil (1,000km would be down a significant amount on the dipstick). I decided to take it in to a shop to get the top-end done. They said rings were in bad shape and some of the valve seals, so they all got replaced. Long story short, it's still consuming oil in the first 300km, am I cooked? I've had enough with the problems with the bike if so I'm going to sell it.

I keep trying to find a full lobby but the max players i encounter are 2-3 others. When is the best time to try and which modes?