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Diagnostic advice please for 2016 C650 GT - MotoScan App & OBD2 alternative

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Greetings from Ireland. Can anyone advise what to buy OBD 2 other than GS 911 etc.. i live too far from BMW garage to reset my windscreen setting as battery went dead. Heard alot about the Motoscan app and other OBD2 etc.

Merry Christmas and thanks in-advance.

Terry
 
Search "Motoscan reset windscreen" and you'll see several threads that can help you. To summarize, Motoscan will not reset the screen, although it can reset SERVICE alerts, read and clear fault codes, display performance data, integrate new TPMS sensors (with a wakeup tool) and more. A member posted a chart from GS911 showing it will NOT recalibrate the windscreen for 2016+ models. Sorry to be the bearer of "bah, humbug" news but that's what I know.
 
Delray said:
Search "Motoscan reset windscreen" and you'll see several threads that can help you. To summarize, Motoscan will not reset the screen, although it can reset SERVICE alerts, read and clear fault codes, display performance data, integrate new TPMS sensors (with a wakeup tool) and more. A member posted a chart from GS911 showing it will NOT recalibrate the windscreen for 2016+ models. Sorry to be the bearer of "bah, humbug" news but that's what I know.
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Ah Bah Humbug. thanks Delray. I will look through the threads and find a solution. Happy New Year Delray
 
DannyCoolBeans said:
Oh wow
So how do you GT guys reset your windscreen after a new battery install?
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This is anecdotal vs. service manual, but it worked three times while installing new batteries on three different C 650 GT's without disengaging the windscreen:

Do it fast.

I set up a table and put the new battery next to the one coming off the bike. Literally inches apart. I tape down the battery cables from the bike with painter's tape -- painter's tape is ideal because it will hold the cables down to maintain power but it's loose enough to rip them up fast and make the switch.

Remove the nuts on both batteries and make the switch "right quick," as they say in the South. Negative/positive off the old battery to positive/negative on the new battery. Each time, it made me happy to turn on the bike and push the "up" button on the windscreen and see it move.

For adding a pigtail connector, same idea. Tape the battery cables from the bike down tightly enough to maintain contact when the battery post nuts are removed, lay the pigtail connectors on top of the cables from the bike (positive/negative) and tighten the battery post nuts. No rush on this job if the cables are tightly in place and power remains continuous. Also did this three times successfully.
 
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Rather than performing a frantic switch, why not just hook up the new battery in parallel to the old one with some small temporary cables using alligator clips (so both batteries are temporarily connected to the bike), then just take out the old battery, move the bike's cables to the new battery and once that's done, remove the temporary alligator-clipped cables? This way there is never any power disruption.
Or, better yet, just connect the clips of your battery charger to a plus post and the negative to ground, and swap out the batteries.
Just so long as there's always 12 volts geing supplied, no reset would be necessary.
 
Ceesie76 said:
why not just hook up the new battery in parallel to the old one ... using alligator clips (so both batteries are temporarily connected to the bike)
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Um, because I didn't know you could do that? Great suggestion!

Didn't mean to make my process sound "frantic." It's not. Smooth but fast and less than 10 seconds for the changeover, and it works. You just don't want to dally, because the circuit won't "remember" the power supply through a longer interruption (again, anecdotal, I'm not an electrician, but a physicist told me long ago that electric circuits "remember" for a few seconds, that's why if rebooting something you don't plug in immediately).
 
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Delray said:
Um, because I didn't know you could do that? Great suggestion!

Didn't mean to make my process sound "frantic." It's not. Smooth but fast and less than 10 seconds for the changeover, and it works. You just don't want to dally, because the circuit won't "remember" the power supply through a longer interruption (again, anecdotal, I'm not an electrician, but a physicist told me long ago that electric circuits "remember" for a few seconds, that's why if rebooting something you don't plug in immediately).
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Or BMW could have made this for the people without ridiculous need to reset windscreen after swapping batteries.
 
I recently removed my battery for 2 weeks when upgrading the forks, without issues with the windscreen. All I did was set the screen to the lowest positions before working on the bike.
 
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