KTM Wanted £1000 to fix this £3.30 problem 🤣 

And this is why everyone everywhere should be well versed in the right to repair movement. Dealers and companies will extort you to the end of the earth if they are allowed to, we need clear regulations forcing companies to provide repair schematics and diagnostic tools.

Great video!! Makes me appreciate older bikes with carburetors.

KTM seem to be scammers. My mate let his super duke sit for 6 months, it wouldn't run right after. They quoted him 900 to sort it out telling him they'd have to strip the fuel system and refresh it. I drained the fuel, put fresh fuel in and ran some injector cleaner through it (red x if you're interested). Sorted it out for 25 quid including the fuel.

Motorcycles used to be a cheap form of transportation, that you could service or repair yourself. Now look , and they're saying bike sales are dropping. No sh*t 😅

When I hear “KTM” - I hear awesome performance and then I hear shitty reliability and idiotically costly parts. Solve your problem: buy a Japanese bike and ride rather than fix..and pay, and pay, and pay….and pay…..

Give me a gravity fed set of carbs any day.

Methodical, evidence based troubleshooting. Massively appreciate your videos! Every mechanic should work like that but so few do.

My ktm Duke did the exact same thing, new spark plug and it will ride brilliant for a few hundred miles, I'll bet the valves need re-shiming, they need adjusting often on these little thumpers

Love these diagnostic vids Jim , so interesting 👍

Nice video! Please keep them coming. I don't know if the fueling system on this bike and the RC390 are the same, but my 15' RC390 had a starting issue and would also run lean. It turned out that the fuel hose wasn't sealing correctly. Hence, the fuel pressure was incorrect, making it stall and backfire on the declaration. It was also intermittent because the hose would move around, have better sealing at one moment, and be squirting fuel back into the tank the next minute.

My 690 wouldn't start at fuel station after refuel. Got it going and limped home popping and banging. Turned out to be fuel pressure relief valve

Had almost that on a KTM 950 Adventure (carbs) in the summer. The idle would dip down every ten seconds. Sometimes the dip would cause it to stall, other times it would only just recover. It was a new NGK spark plug that caused it. With the bad plug it would ride alright at high revs, but was playing up at low revs.

This is a great video. It just shows how complicated motorcycles have become. The cost of servicing and repairs is getting rediculous.

Had a 2008 990 superduke since 2013. Apart from the common fault of the water pump oil seal its never missed a beat. Thank christ, the part prices are eye watering 😳

11k miles on a Duke 3, it's almost new. Your mic is lucky, I'd love to have a muff just laying around 😂 If you're not aware, instead of purchasing a higher pressure relief valve, you can modify the original. And, with the free play in the gears within the throttle body, if you release the tension on the two lower screws holding the stepper motor, you can eliminate all of the free play by gently using a screwdriver between the housing and the stepper motor mounting plate, apply a little pressure, check the play, and retighten.

WAFNM Simple don’t buy a ktm, 😜

Really liking the regular vids ol lad

Nice video, thanks Jim.

Sir, all of your videos are entertainment..... Hell, I don't even own a bike but here I am watching you fix stuff the Dealer's don't want anything to do with them ! It's a great cH!T sHOW that's "Super" entertaining for me to watch ! GiT-R-Done !

Hi,,loving this channel. Is it possible to reset the ecu without the ktm software? What equipment do I need, i have an rc390? Thanks

This why i ride older bikes.preferably evo sportsters.i have 4 and a vrod. Hammer performance 1275 kit and good suspension makes them a fun and reliable machine. Mine are carbies,89 model,94,02,03.the vrod is 04. All of them have been dead reliable. The one thing that tends to go out on them is ignition module but hammer kits include dynatek upgrade.

got the same issue .... turns out its the crank sensor going bad .... its already over 100,000km .... its a 2014 Duke 690R

This is like anything you buy new motor bike any vehicles it's all electrical and don't want people fixing them and take them to the dealership and a expensive job I stick to any thing old I've got a cheap lifan -mirage 156-fmi engine easy to fix cheap parts nothing special 14 plate 55000 miles only paid £500 it's never let me down I'm old school mechanic and welder fabricatior don't do anything electrical or technical can't be dealing with it good luck with it but sounds like you really know your stuff just found your channel 👍

I have a Husqvarna SM610S that has a very bad miss. From the paperwork that came with it (it was imported to Thailand from Japan) the chassis # comes back as a 1998 or 1999 and it is absolutely impossible to find spares for this bike. Having a single 577cc engine miss all the time except for when you're really on it makes it exhausting to ride. You have to hang on for your dear life and starting slow turns out from a driveway or street you're always in danger of going down if it quits. It's been parked for two years but I have to give it another attempt, the bike is big and cool.

Two words...Merino and wool👍 Loving these vids as always

De rust your tanks , this E10 petrol is rusting tanks quicker than a rabbit running . Be aware it can cause no end of trouble.

Never owned one. But this would piss me off.

One is exponentially wiser albeit completely over my head 😂👍👏👌

I have that very same toughpad. What software are you running on it?

Bring back the CARBURETTOR 💪😎

Did that coolant temp sensor show -40 deg?

Did you notice it won’t start on continuous cranking then starts on first cycle of next attempt.

Been sat since summer and fuel is full of water now maybe?

These things vibrates like hell shakes everything to bits

I literally said to my Mrs soon as the bike wouldn't start properly on the button its fuel or spark issue. She said its a throttle problem 😅I said whys that, she said because the guy said so 😂😂. NO love if the bike ain't starting on the button and he ain't even touched the throttle it ain't the throttle lol

Hi, good video. I have 2008 690 supermoto with similar issue on my garage now. TPS calibration was bad, fixed. Spark plug cap was dead, fixed. But that didn't solve the problem. I checked the fuel pressure - good. Hmm.......... Then I checked the valve clearances. The intake is clamped. The output is a bad rocker arm. I'm waiting rocker arm now, hope this solves the problem.

You know what my spidey-senses tell me……. You change your senses a lot…… 😬

KTM are typical of today’s problems - there are VERY FEW Tradesmen left. Fewer still “Mechanics”. Not many repair shops remain - they are generally remove, throw away and replace establishments.

Also bike got better when warm got to be fuel oiling up

Half a gallon of fresh petrol?

KTM,we reckon it stands for kick ten minutes,how come in this day and age manufacturers can't build reliable bikes or cars,they cost a fortune,a selection of them have fuelling problems from new,need re mapping etc, what a waste of time,going back and forwards to dealers workshop's for a fix.

Did anyone with a 350 Honda have this sort of problem back in the 70's?

Great videos, longer the better for me anyway 👍

At 6.06 in, my guess is intake air leak.

Bit like abs problems on bm’s no more bmw’s for me either

ktm? Got myself a 1050 adv back in 2016, 60.000km now, never had the slightest problem. guess I am lucky 😅.

Watching video bike sounds like your using E10 not E5 ? Very fluffy pick up

If this happens to yours, it's your own fault for buying one of their bikes. £1000 for a £3.30 fix? Sounds like KTM learned their trade from Ducati.

KTM seem to have their share of electrical gremlins, another reason l wouldn’t buy one. Interesting video all the same.

Duke 690's are really fun bike to ride...brings hoolinganisim in us 😂😂😂

Watch to the end❤❤❤

I've got a 45-year-old Honda that runs better than that KTM ever did, I've got a hatred of KTMs from when they switched from dirt bikes to road bikes, they are overpriced, overhyped and unreliable, just my opinion,

Loved your account of the on the move compression test! Reliable confirmation. From the looks of that plug the fuel mix is fine, neither rich nor lean. But from someone who used to set ignition timing with a Rizla paper and a (hi-tech) trannie radio, that bike is the stuff of nightmares. A malfunctioning electronic hallucinogenic. As sicks6six says, KTMs are overpriced, overhyped and unreliable. In a word, shite.

Don't forget KTMs' heritage is race bikes and 11k is more than a race bikes life. If youve got a bike with a carby never sell it.

Ah ktm being a ktm

I'm curious now what the £3.30 will be spent on. Not the spark plug surely?

with a lot of these it is almost certainly an issue to do with curry - often this is how it is

I am surprised you didn't go for the Throttle sleeve/lines adjustment first then go after balancing the throttle bodies.

I had to take back my KTM 4 times under warranty for an engine issue. All the KTM techs did each time was up the idle. They never fixed it due to 'our technicians are only good with mechanical issues, not electronic' My engine would stall randomly, I think it was a fueling issue at mid-low RPM. I sold it and thought fk KTM, never will buy one again.

KTM keep taking money, and dealerships on the con lol

KTM.kost thousands to maintain

great vid loads of info

So it was not a 3.3 problem...

KTM are appalling with the reliability issues

Don't singles just sound great?!

What’s the £3.30 fix

Quite fancied one of these but this video made up my mind not to buy KTM.

Wouldn't ever want to own a KTM

All these people here with their remarks about ktm reliability electrical gremlins etc probably did not watch part two I guess😅

Made in India 😬

Typical KTM if you buy a KTM be prepared to look after it yourself because the AD’s are crap in my experience they are over priced when you consider the aftercare I’ve repaired all of my problems on my SMCR myself they are the Range Rover of the bike world best just go Japanese, mind you when it works it brings a smile to my face but its not very often

I think the answer is to boycott KTM

I liked the video I did not like the EFFING

Bad name

KTM absolute crap reliability

Why do you keep swearing!

Sorry; had to stop watching because of your frequent bad language. I was watching with my eight year old daughter….

Jim, never, ever do a wheelie on camera again, mate. Delete this comment, also.

Handle bars are not centered correctly