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The Don · 07-29-2008

I own a 2007 zx600r that has 2200 km . the bike was purchased last august so it is still under warranty. Here's my problem. Last october I dropped the bike off at a paint shop to get custum painted,(it looks amazing) I finally got the bike back in May of this year. The guys unfortunatly did not charge or look after the battery for the winter months so the battery had to be charged. The shop owner said that they had a problem with the battery accepting a charge, but it did finally work. I picked up the bike around 5:00pm and went straight home. I was dying to go out for a nice ride so around 9:00pm I went out for a ride. About 90 km away from the city out on the highway the bike started losing power intermitately and the rpm gauge started going all over the place. All of the gauges would go blank then come back to life and the rpm's would drop to zero then jump to red line with out changing the speed of the bike. The lights would go out then finally the bike just died and that was the end of my ride. The next day I got up early and took the bike to the local kawasaki dealer and they worked on the bike for three weeks. That was in late May of this year. Today is July 29 and I took the bike out for a ride out on the highway again and it started doing the same thing again. When they had it in the shop they replaced the cdi module and put in a new battery. The error codes on the digital gauges on the bike showed that there was a problem with the fuel injection system when I took the bike in originally but they changed the diagnosis to the cdi module when I went to pick up the bike.
The power comes and goes then the bike runs fine for a few minutes than it starts again The temperature of the bike was around 85-90 celsius. It would start to to lose power at 10km up to 100 km/hr. I use high octane fuel from shell or esso gas stations so the gas should be good quality gas. I don't know that much about this stuff, so if any one has a few suggestions or if some one esle has had this same experience I would like to here from you.

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The Don Newbie Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3	I own a 2007 zx600r that has 2200 km . the bike was purchased last august so it is still under warranty. Here's my problem. Last october I dropped the bike off at a paint shop to get custum painted,(it looks amazing) I finally got the bike back in May of this year. The guys unfortunatly did not charge or look after the battery for the winter months so the battery had to be charged. The shop owner said that they had a problem with the battery accepting a charge, but it did finally work. I picked up the bike around 5:00pm and went straight home. I was dying to go out for a nice ride so around 9:00pm I went out for a ride. About 90 km away from the city out on the highway the bike started losing power intermitately and the rpm gauge started going all over the place. All of the gauges would go blank then come back to life and the rpm's would drop to zero then jump to red line with out changing the speed of the bike. The lights would go out then finally the bike just died and that was the end of my ride. The next day I got up early and took the bike to the local kawasaki dealer and they worked on the bike for three weeks. That was in late May of this year. Today is July 29 and I took the bike out for a ride out on the highway again and it started doing the same thing again. When they had it in the shop they replaced the cdi module and put in a new battery. The error codes on the digital gauges on the bike showed that there was a problem with the fuel injection system when I took the bike in originally but they changed the diagnosis to the cdi module when I went to pick up the bike. The power comes and goes then the bike runs fine for a few minutes than it starts again The temperature of the bike was around 85-90 celsius. It would start to to lose power at 10km up to 100 km/hr. I use high octane fuel from shell or esso gas stations so the gas should be good quality gas. I don't know that much about this stuff, so if any one has a few suggestions or if some one esle has had this same experience I would like to here from you.