Here's A Strange One For You!.

[ZX-7R]

This has occurred the last 3 or 4 times i have filled up with petrol.Done it again today.

After filling up i switch the immobiliser off and press the starter as normal.The bike acts as if the immobiliser is still on so the starter won't work.I pull the connectors apart etc. and eventually it starts.I don't know if this fixes it or it just starts working by itself.It only ever does it when filling up,not any other time.

I was wondering whether it was some king of static charge from the pump or something sending it haywire.Got me baffled for sure.Maybe just coincidence it happens when filling up but this has happened every time the last few visits to fill up.

Any ideas?,or should i dig my tin foil hat out.
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Current Bike - 2000 ZX-7R

[jaffa90]

What happens if you push the bike away from the pumps and tried then?

[ZX-7R]

[Teflon-Mike]

Is it a cyclone alarm by any chance?

Are you disarming the immobilizer via a radio fob?
If so are the batteries about kaput?

I ask about the cyclone as had similar trouble, not necesserily on petrol stations; but the key fob design meaning that the battery kept going flat from button being pressed in pocket.

And anomaly you 'may' have in a petrol station is standing over the bike, turning the ignition 'on' before pressing the dissarm button on the fob... this may effect other alarm systems... but took me a few times to cotton on....

'Normally' you are walking up to the bike; you dissarm the remote, then put key in ignition and turn on.

At a petrol station; you take key out the ignition, open petrol cap with another key; fill pay then climb back onto bike, put key in ignition and instinctively turn it on... then remember the remote..... but by THAT time, the alarm has sensed voltage on the ignition circuit, and not having been disarmed FIRST, triggers the 'hot-wire' disable.... which often requires a complicated sequence on the remote to 'clear' OR the alarm being unplugged to wipe its memory and reset....

But, low fob batteries often cause anomalous settings or lack of, and in a petrol station with the tin hat and so much metal work around reflecting radio waves interference could just be swamping a weak fob signal.
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[ZX-7R]

Its not a key fob 'bleeper' style immoboliser,but the Datatool one where you press the silver disc against the one fitted to the bike.It beeps and then you insert the key into the ignition.If you don't turn on the ignition within about 10 seconds or so it rearms itself.
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Current Bike - 2000 ZX-7R

[mentalboy]

[ZX-7R]

[Rogerborg]

[mentalboy]