SO helpful for jumping my 2018 R1200R. I would have spent an hour searching for the right connector. Instead, from seat off to jump was less than 5 mins. Thank you sir!
Never have the donor vehicle running. A running vehicle may produce a higher voltage which could damage electronics on the jumped vehicle. I have learned this the hard way. A fried alternator just for starters.
Use your key on the left side just below the passenger seat. Alternatively you don't even need to remove the seat if you have the right size star tool (sorry don't know what it is off the top of my head).
@@daveyator Thanks. I don't actually have the bike yet. I'm test riding one Saturday and can't wait. Pretty sure I'm going to buy one, but I needed to know this to put a charging lead on the battery, as I do short journeys every day to work and like the battery to be fully charged.
@@ArcanePath360 There is another way to trickle charge without adding pigtail SAE connection. The BMW has a DIN receptacle on the right hand side if the tank in the fairing. You can pick up an adapter for $10 and trickle charge anytime you feel the desire. If the battery is over 3 to 4 years consider buying a new one. You'll never need to worry about it. My original OEM battery was still good but I replaced at 5 years because I didn't want to be stranded.
@@CorgiDaddy Hi, I read somewhere that this is actually a bad idea, because the wires going from this are not built for taking a charge. They are for reading sensitive electronics and you could cause damage using this for charging. In fact the manual tells you not to charge the battery at all with it on the bike, however I have a low power 1amp charger designed for small batteries and have the pig tails going up through a hole and grommet that I added to the right glove box. Has been okay so far but I think the charger gets confused about the state of the battery. It stays on a lot longer than it used to with my smaller bike, and the charging light takes a long time before it shows that the battery is even strong enough to start the bike, which isn't correct. Maybe the alarm being on upsets it, I don't know, because when I turn the bike on, the charge shows 12.1v on the bike display.
