tirostef20

I had the exact same issue with my VFR. The low beam relay was making a wierd noise, the bike would not keep running without my thumb on the starter switch, and if I used my indicators or high beams it would kill the bike off completely. Hi Guys, I am hoping this may help some of you who are struggling. I have got a 2003 VFR 800 Vtec (non ABS). I did something similar to Kanadian Ken, instead of bypassing the earth at the two ends of the connectors, I cut the ground cable (green at the back of the relay) and joined it with the blue block (the left hand part), it got the bike to keep running and everything was working fine from then on. I was fortunate enough to have a friend come over and check the bike out for me, luckily he knew a lot more about bikes than I do. We took the nose off of the bike (really easy, theres like 4 bolts), we disconnected the front wiring loom, and checked resistance on the loom, it was reading 63.7 ohms! Within that front loom, there is a yellow terminal block that has about 16 green cables in there, what I had found was that on the terminal block where the main earth cable comes from the main loom, it had burnt. I rang Honda to enquire about any outstanding recalls on the bike, they said there weren't any, guess they lied. Any how, to resolve the issue, cut all of the cables from the yellow terminal block and solder the cables together, then simply wrap it back up in the loom. The yellow block loops the cables back round to the main loom anyway, as there is a thin metal strip thing the over side, that just terminates the connections, I also noticed that this was quite gunky, it was obvious that the block had got damp, then got hot because there was all s*** over it. Since we did that, the bike is so much more responsive, the lights do not flicker with a twist of the throttle and it starts so much more easily.