01-13-2022, 05:30 PM
(01-13-2022, 04:05 AM)Nachodaddy_imp Wrote: Here we go again.
I bought my 2013 standard in August, 2021 with around 4500 miles on it. A very clean bike that looked well cared for. I don't ride much, but recently the idle will suddenly drop to around 500 RPM and the engine will die. This first happened when I was riding very slowly, using the clutch to regulate my speed while practicing very slow speed turns, figure-eights and U-turns in an empty parking lot. Then it happened after riding fairly fast and stopping at a traffic light. Clutch pulled in, bike in 1st gear, engine idles down to 500 for a second or so and dies. This happened a few more times on the way home. The bike is hard to start when this happens. Enough so, that other traffic is getting irritated with me and I have no place to move the bike, but have to keep trying.
I will take it out and see if a few things help, like putting it in neutral and leaving the clutch out when I start it, turning off and on the master switch before starting it after it dies, and rotating the throttle completely each time.
I think it is too old for Honda to give me any kind of warranty coverage and I have absolutely no confidence in any of the local "Honda" shops.
Weather at this time is very mild - sixties to mid-seventies (F) dry air, typical desert winter weather. I very much appreciate all the posts, attachments and pictures others have posted of their experiences with this problem. If I had been smart enough to read this forum before buying this bike, I would not have bought it, especially at the price I paid.
Sorry for your idle troubles. When my '14 standard started acting up, it was about 6 months out of warranty. I thought Honda might step up to help with the issue and wrote them a letter explaining everything, and the fact that some 25 other owners had experienced this on this site, and asked them to please consider extending warranty. Customer Service called me a few weeks later and asked questions, was sorry to hear of the difficulty...but bottom line was--you have to take it to dealer and let them diagnose the issue, and after that Honda would take it into consideration. Dealer said it could be hard to diagnose because the issue was intermittent, and if time were spent trying to make the problem happen, that would be time charged at $125 per hour. Sevice manager said he had seen cases where he thought Honda should cover things, but didn't and sometimes the reverse--he simply had no way of knowing what they would do. In the end, leery of a long drawn out ordeal, I decided not to go that route and simply traded it in on a new bike. But at the time 2016-17, not as much was known about the likely culprit...the IACV.