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My 2012 Burgman is now just 2 weeks shy of its one year old warranty period and has about 11,500 miles on it.
It has been well maintained and been trouble free for 50 weeks so far.
Today, I filled up at one of the local non-major brand gas stations before taking off on a long day of riding. Lately, for the past 2 months, I have been adding a touch of Seafoam to each tank, usually only an ounce or two at a time. Today I did not.
While cruising down Rt 70 towards Baltimore, the red F1 indicator light suddenly came on and the LCD display's F1 symbol started to pulse on and off. Thankfully, I was just approaching a truck rest area and immediately pulled into it. I shut everything off right away. Pulled out the Owner's Manual to figure what was wrong. Fuel Injection problem indicated. The engine was still running quite smoothly and strong prior to shutting it down.
Started it back after a few minutes rest and everything seemed well. F1 light was gone and the engine idled properly. I started back onto the highway and brought it back up to speed (65-70) and kept it running until about ten miles down the road and then got off on an exit and continued my trip along some Maryland back roads. Continued on and back again onto another major highway and slowly worked my way back home (the long way of course). When I arrived home, I had put well over 100 miles on it since I had left the truck rest area and experienced no further issues.
Before the F1 light came on, I noticed that my mpg's were running about 4-5 below normal, even though the power and acceleration was in the normal range. After the restart, the mpg's went back up into my normal range and stayed there.
Any ideas on what may have happened here? A happenstance? Should I go ahead and take in while it is still under warranty and have it looked at anyway? Even if it continued to run flawlessly, would the shop's code readers be able to still pick up any trouble codes?
Panic or just chill out?
It has been well maintained and been trouble free for 50 weeks so far.
Today, I filled up at one of the local non-major brand gas stations before taking off on a long day of riding. Lately, for the past 2 months, I have been adding a touch of Seafoam to each tank, usually only an ounce or two at a time. Today I did not.
While cruising down Rt 70 towards Baltimore, the red F1 indicator light suddenly came on and the LCD display's F1 symbol started to pulse on and off. Thankfully, I was just approaching a truck rest area and immediately pulled into it. I shut everything off right away. Pulled out the Owner's Manual to figure what was wrong. Fuel Injection problem indicated. The engine was still running quite smoothly and strong prior to shutting it down.
Started it back after a few minutes rest and everything seemed well. F1 light was gone and the engine idled properly. I started back onto the highway and brought it back up to speed (65-70) and kept it running until about ten miles down the road and then got off on an exit and continued my trip along some Maryland back roads. Continued on and back again onto another major highway and slowly worked my way back home (the long way of course). When I arrived home, I had put well over 100 miles on it since I had left the truck rest area and experienced no further issues.
Before the F1 light came on, I noticed that my mpg's were running about 4-5 below normal, even though the power and acceleration was in the normal range. After the restart, the mpg's went back up into my normal range and stayed there.
Any ideas on what may have happened here? A happenstance? Should I go ahead and take in while it is still under warranty and have it looked at anyway? Even if it continued to run flawlessly, would the shop's code readers be able to still pick up any trouble codes?
Panic or just chill out?