I've been on the road all day. I get to the hotel and I have no headlight (hi or low), markers, passing, tail, or dash lights. I do have signals, brake, and dash signal indicators. I'm assuming it's a fuse. Can someone do me a favor and point me at the right fuse to get? I'm going to have to dig into this in the parking lot in the morning and I hope I only have to do it once. So I'd like get the right fuse first, and not a whole box.
Thanks!

I see that you have an '05. I have an '03, so this may not be any help, but on my bike, the fuse that you would be looking for is on the top row, 3rd from the rear and is a 15 A fuse. Also, the bottom row (set horizontally) are extra fuses. You should be able to pull the fuses and tell which one is bad just by looking at them. Good luck man. That sucks having it happen out of town.

happened to me leaving an establishment at 2am on a dark road with no street lights! great time lol....after you change your fuse.....dont run your spots with your high beams on at the same time and you shouldnt have another problem!

pull the side cover on the left hand side of the bike and u will find your fuse box(you will need a metric allen wrench to take off the cover) locate and open the fuse box and i believe it is the third fuse down. replace the 15 amp fuse with a 25 and it will take a bit more to blow the fuse out next time. you should have spare fuses right in the fusebox. (a piece of tin foil from a cigarette pack around the blown fuse will work in an emergency!)

take some advise that i learned the hard way.....dont go anywhere without a set of metric allens in your saddlebags!

Best of Luck!

I do keep a fold-up metric hex set with me. I didn't know though that there were spares on the block.
I have my passing lamps wired to the low beams. I think I'll leave 'em off anyway just in case.
Thanks for the help! I knew someone here would come though with the info.

Passing lamps should not be wired directly with the headlights! Wire them directly to the battery with their own fuse and with a relay operated by the headlight.

Clifford

Clifford wrote:
Passing lamps should not be wired directly with the headlights! Wire them directly to the battery with their own fuse and with a relay operated by the headlight.

Clifford
Oh, sure. Now you tell me. I have a dyna 3000 module and was trying to just make them work. How would I go about wiring said relay Clifford? Give me some directions and I promise I'll buy some 16" apes from ya'. I really will.

I did the relay after killing batteries on both my bikes because I forgot to shut the switch off. The passing lights need to be wired separate and on their own fuse like Clifford said.

drkstr22 wrote:
happened to me leaving an establishment at 2am on a dark road with no street lights! great time lol....after you change your fuse.....dont run your spots with your high beams on at the same time and you shouldnt have another problem!

pull the side cover on the left hand side of the bike and u will find your fuse box(you will need a metric allen wrench to take off the cover) locate and open the fuse box and i believe it is the third fuse down. replace the 15 amp fuse with a 25 and it will take a bit more to blow the fuse out next time. you should have spare fuses right in the fusebox. (a piece of tin foil from a cigarette pack around the blown fuse will work in an emergency!)

take some advise that i learned the hard way.....dont go anywhere without a set of metric allens in your saddlebags!

Best of Luck!
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Just a thought,the suggestion to increase fuse rating is good and will likely fix the issue but try going from 15amp to 20amp fuse 1st before going to a 25amp fuse.

I suggest that because the additonal 5 amps(15 to 20a) might be just enough to stop it from blowing fuses with passing lamps and hibeam on without using a highre rated 25amp fuse that in a prtial or full short situation will over load the headlight circtur wiring for a little longer perioed before blowing which could poss lead to a burn wire vs lower rated 20a fues that would blow faster.

Just erroring on safe side here.

Scott

not much help to you now, however, I have also had the same problem at the worst of times, now I pack 2 small but powerful bicycle battery operated lights with me, just clip them on to the windscreen and use as headlights until it'll at least get you to a safe lighted area to work on your scoot

No way should you go up in fuse size , ever. For sure wire those passing lamps separate. Always do that with options/accessories. Try to keep the stock harness/wiring from any changes you will do a whole lot better. I know, I hacked mine to death and reminded myself why you don't!