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#4 ·
Simply Put will Keep and Ride my Cross Country until feel I am wasting my money on the upkeep of it .. Sorry to see this happen but from a business viewpoint can understand my Polaris did this although was partly Polaris Fault as did not do much in ways of improving the Victory Model After they bought Indian ..
 
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I honestly don't see a problem for Victory owners. Are you throwing parts at your bikes? No. At least not that I've seen. Maybe you do and are quiet about it. Now if Harley did the same and you owned a Harley I could see concern. But from what I've seen Victory's are so reliable that you ride for years with zero parts being changed. So what's the concern other than your trade-in value just took a deep nose-dive. Ride it until the wheels fall off. Buy any questionable parts now and you are good.
 
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I also wouldn't be concerned. And if I were in the market for a new bike, I'd likely jump at a Cross Country with liquidation pricing. The aftermarket will continue to offer parts like drive belts and other maintenance items long after the 10 year promise from Polaris. From what I understand there isn't much more to do to the bikes than that as long as the bike hasn't been hopped up too much.

Heck, my 10 year old Harley already has obsolete parts that I can't get from the factory anymore.
 
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There is such a large aftermarket industry for Harley's that they don't carry a complete inventory of parts for a long time. That would a waste of resources. But they do carry many other parts for quite some time.

On the other hand, between OEM parts and aftermarket you can get almost anything you need for just about any HD bike. I can get a replacement for every single part on my 61 year old Harley.
 
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Oh shyyyte. Yours went out too. I hope that module is really what's wrong with yours. The cruise just stopped on my 07 as well. They changed that module and still wouldn't work. They even put a new tach on because it also is part of that maze of circuitry. Still wouldn't work. After waiting a week for another, they changed the ECM. Bingo, it worked. So they remove the other new parts and put the old back on and it still worked. Keep your fingers cross. Wasn't much later that I traded it for what I have now. Here's my crossed fingers for you.

 
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That part and its superceded/preceded part are all but non-existent. All those links in the websearch turn up nothing. Even used on eBay are hard to find and pricey. And I'd rather new since these units are common to fail. I think I found a source in Norway for NOS HD parts. Their site shows they have them, but not sure of actual stock. But pricing is nuts even before shipping.

Which link did you see that talks about repairing them?
 
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It started this past summer. Cruising along, cruise set and green light on. Bike slowly starts losing speed. Not like coasting, but as if you reduced throttle a bit. After losing 5 or 10 mph the cruise light turns orange (which mean on, but not set) and the bike starts losing speed rapidly as it starts coasting. Reset cruise and it would work for a while. Maybe a few days. Then happen again. Slowly got worse and more frequent.

Got to where it won't even set most of the time. And when it does, it would eventually do what I already described. Now it's at a point where it will it set very rarely, and always lose speed.

I have found the procedures for pulling up cruise codes. No code show. I've also found the procedures for testing the cruise switched (throttle, brakes, etc), which also tensions the stepper cable as the last step. That always checked well. The puzzling part for me is the loss of speed while cruise is still active and the intermittent activation. If it just shut off or always refused to activate I would at least think it was a switch.
 
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That sounds like a cruise cable or roll-off switch issue, but in truth I've never done enough of these to be all intimate with them without looking some stuff up. I'll stop by the shop tomorrow and grab the right book and go over the EDG's for that model and we'll see what we can come up with.

If we can't figure something out I can ask an electronic guru when I see him next week probably. That guy has forgotten more then I'll ever know about Harley electronics.
 
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If it was the cruise cable, would that make it so that it wouldn't set to begin with? I could see it being the cable causing the loss of speed. Poor lube or something not letting it adjust itself properly. But would it stop it from letting me engage the cruise at all, intermittently, to begin with?

On the flip side, if it was the roll off switch, what's with the loss of speed while cruise is engaged? That the cruise has several different issues is what made me think the module is acting up.
 
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Your symptoms do sound different than mine Lurch. Mine was sudden total loss. Worked riding coming home one afternoon. Didn't work the next morning going out. I had zero shut offs or loss of speed issues. I actually thought it was a brake switch issue and I did have a rear brake switch out. That was a false lead though apparently in my case.
 
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Back on Topic guess might surprise a few, might not .. The closest Victory Dealer to me has sold more Victory's in the last 2 days than they have in the past 2 months .. Think they got about 6 left then all gone ..
 
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I've been surprised before when a new model of motorcycle comes out. A lot of people up here buy them during the winter and have them held until spring. We were going to do that with an Indian before our Ultra came along. Maybe if the pricing is right already, this could happen with the Vics. As I said in the other Goodbye Vic thread, if I was in the market for another touring bike, I'd seriously be interested in a CC at a big discount. I test rode them twice, and while not completely enthralled with them, they were very nice and we'd happily own one.
 
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This all might be suggesting that if Victorys were priced lower to begin with they may have sold better. And if folks up north don't get one soon they may not get one for these good prices as folks south will just have them do a dealer to dealer transfer. Now's the time, PERIOD.
 
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So just how much more do stockholder earn when a company goes out of business? I suggest it's time stockholders earned a little less rather than earn nothing at all. I realize in this particular case it makes no difference. It's a generalized statement. Earn a little less forever or earn a lot for a very short time. It really is that simple and their choice.
 
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