Fyi,

from my brief research I found we have had four (4) previous threads on failed ignitors,

Here is my count for failed ignitors (cdi) from a brief search but might be more, but first some other useless info:


CDI stands for capacitor discharge ignition.
Triumph calls ours a digital inductive ignition.

For 2nd hand buyers:

“I put Dwight's 2002 Bonneville America box in my 03 Speedmaster and it worked. An added benefit of the Speedmaster box is that the rev limit is 7,900 rpm compared to the America's 7,400”.

Ebay's 2nd hand parts link from Pinwall

The threads found were:

25th April 07 - fm Ramsound
May 07

16th of June 09 1

09 Aug 09

29th Aug 09

and finally 02 Dec 08

So what I've attempted is to incorporate all the info from those threads into a final table, but would appreciate to be notified if we have more or what I've gleaned is innacurate. ie

I'll then update any further info which will help our cause.

Here's the Table Of Failed Ignitors

So if you are interested in not forking out your hard earned cash or like me, do not like being treated like a di#khead, have a look and please pm or email me so we can include or vary any further numbers using this thread.

One thing though,

No more posts please on failed ignitors unless it's in here

FYI, What I did glean was, some have had their replaced under warranty (fine), some way after warranty has expired (fine), one who had to pay for labour (not fine) and others who bought second hand one's and replaced theirs by themselves cos their dealer either bluffed them or who knows what (Bad Dealer).

I would also put money on it there may even be some who have paid the ridiculous price for new ones too. Hopefully no one here.

The whole thing is a "sh#t fight" and imho wrong.

Why is it that some dealers can do what they can to organise a replacement, whilst others may be thinking tough luck Jack, and in the meantime some of our blokes and girls are getting ripped.

Don't be bluffed. Triumph knows they had problems with these and decided to do nothing. Not good and definitely not professional.

The question is, have Triumph always been notified by particular dealers of this problem and tried to organise a replacement, or has it been particular dealers at fault for not looking after their customers in the first place by not contacting Triumph, I don't know? Maybe a bit of both perhaps.

Doesn't matter now, this is about collarboration between our numbers and data to justify replacement when out of warranty if or when it happens to you.

My reason for doing this is we needed a number of how many have failed and how many have been replaced when out of warranty.

This info once verified by us can then be used by future members as verification to their dealers that other dealers have organised replacements by Triumph free of charge when bikes have been out of warranty. You can then show them the data??? etc blah blah blah.

We now have a pre-requisite in other words that YES, others have had their's replaced even after 40k miles by Triumph and your saying (as an example) it's not possible? I don't think so and this is why etc.

So again it's all about getting our figures accurate so a dealer can't fob you off or pull it apart as inaccurate. So, at least we are doing our best to prevent that happening anyway.

One last thing. For those who are on the "failed ignitor" list and have not provided their bike type and date of manufacture, and at what milage their ignitor failed too, can you contact me and I'll put it into the table as I did with the dyno table.

I'm trying to see if their is a trend as already the area around 04 / 05 looks suspect. This also would help our cause as it could possibly narrow down a bad batch from Triumph.

Also, any constructive suggestions or comments both good and bad are welcome so this info Can have a bit of teeth. Ok, not fail safe of course but certainly better than nothing.

Finally, we have read that an engineering mob are close to developing an after market ignitor. Great because that can always be plan B for those that can afford them but please remember some aren't as fortunate as others in the disposable income department. Something to consider as Xmas approaches to help out those less fortunate.

cheers
staffo

Last edited by Staffo; 12/08/2009 8:12 PM.