Minor Accident Today, Autodrive is a little clumsy on quick start/stops
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You will be cutting out 8 pieces of 1/4 inch plate 3 7/16 inch long and 1 inch wide on one end and 7/8 inch wide on the other. you will cut the ends to fit. The easy way for the pattern is to cut a piece of card board that will rough fit in the roll bar then trace the open hole on the card board, now draw the outside cut line about 1/8 inch from the hole line that you just traced. I hope this helps.
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You will be cutting out 8 pieces of 1/4 inch plate 3 7/16 inch long and 1 inch wide on one end and 7/8 inch wide on the other. you will cut the ends to fit. The easy way for the pattern is to cut a piece of card board that will rough fit in the roll bar then trace the open hole on the card board, now draw the outside cut line about 1/8 inch from the hole line that you just traced. I hope this helps.
Thanks Gerald but I did that back in 2017 when they changed the hoops from the 15/16 hoops. It looks like I won't need a redesign for 2020 - no change in the hoops. I've been wondering since I heard that as much as 70% of the parts are different on the new models.
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SlingLow They are the same, I used a small piece of wire to check both my 2018 and the 2020 as close as my eye can tell they are the same.
Thanks Brother! It's about a 50 mile round trip to my dealer in the next state over and I don't know if they even have their showroom open - although they did answer the phone. With all that's going on I really didn't want to make that drive in my car (way too rainy for the Sling). Your help is greatly appreciated!
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So my wife was a driving the 2020 today and I was on my Triumph Bobber. We came to stop sign to make a right, my buddy up front took off but there wasn’t enough room for me to get her and I out, I stopped, she was looking left and thought I went, hit the gas realized I was still there and jammed the brakes. Now to be clear this was entirely her fault so I’m not blaming the SS, but it probably wouldn’t have happened the way it did or as hard as it did if the autodrive hadn’t bucked. She bumped into my rear tire and pushed me over and I fell down on top of the bike,
The challenge with the Autodrive is on quick gas/brake or even just slowing down the system bucks a little bit. It can’t move as fast with the clutch in/out as say a DCT would. So when she jumped on the brake the SS bucked, jumped forward and right into me. Yes she was too close to me had she been a few feet back and paying more attention she would have stopped in time, but she’s still learning the SS and it’s a little clumsy on the start stop type scenarios. The combo of the two put me on my ass.
Damage. Well me and my buddy were able to disassemble the front end somewhat, find all the brackets that were bent, remove them, bang them straight again and then with our trusty tape measure get everything back into spec. the only issue now is one of the tabs is broken on the passenger piece below the headlight (the black/blue part that connects to the lower spoiler) and the hood panel has a couple scratches and gouges. Some gonna try to order those new panels and just replace them and it should look as if nothing happened to it. It did push the passenger front corner up and back about 2” and bent a bunch of little brackets. We got that sorted pretty well though.
The Bobber thankfully I had crash bars on it or it would have really been screwed up. It needs both brake levers, a mirror and some paint touch up on the exhaust and crash bar (which we had to bend back into shape). Overall it coulda been much worse. I’m a little scraped up but nothing big and thank God for helmets. A big scratch mark in the back shows where i would have smashed my head on the ground. I know my head hit the ground but with my helmet on I never actually felt it at all.
One takeaway I would say for anyone with the automatic is give your self some room in front of you, this thing kinda bucks and jumps when coming to a stop, it’s not as smooth as a DCT or regular automatic or even as smooth as someone who’s experienced driving a stick. it’s a little clumsy and bucks around a bit so give yourself a few extra feet just to be safe...
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I just picked up my 2020 SL/LE Autodrive yesterday ! Not impressed with the Autodrive. It lurches on decelaration and is very clunky. Also my idle is 1100 RPM after warmed up completely. What RPM are you getting on idle ? I am thinking maybe the high idle is affecting things. My Goldwing idles at 750. Also at highway speeds seems to want to wander .. should dealer do alignment on new machine before delivery ?
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750-800 manual tranny
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I just picked up my 2020 SL/LE Autodrive yesterday ! Not impressed with the Autodrive. It lurches on decelaration and is very clunky. Also my idle is 1100 RPM after warmed up completely. What RPM are you getting on idle ? I am thinking maybe the high idle is affecting things. My Goldwing idles at 750. Also at highway speeds seems to want to wander .. should dealer do alignment on new machine before delivery ?
I think stock, my 2019 idled around 700, but most of our tunes we are using now set it to 1000, it's much smoother there.
Dave@DDMWorks have you played around with the idle on your 2020?
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I think stock, my 2019 idled around 700, but most of our tunes we are using now set it to 1000, it's much smoother there.
Dave@DDMWorks have you played around with the idle on your 2020?
Yeap, idle speed was the first thing that I changed in the tune to make sure we had control of flashing.
