Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 998 / 996 / 916 / 748 > Now mine won't start ...

[TP]

MY 2000 996 that has sat quietly on it's own since new years day when I had a low speed drop. Money has meant delaying the repair until now.

Because it sat for so long (I've only ridden it 3 times since then and I had to get SOS to come and start it for me) I assume that the alarm ran the battery out. No problem I figured, I'll just get an Optimate and sort it out.

So, the new Optimate 3 rolls up on Saturday morning and I hook it up, and away we go. Drops into orange and starts charging away .... Sunday morning everything looks peachy and the light is green - which from reading the instructions means that the battery is not only charged but the Optimate reckons it's alright - not a dud battery. Cool methinks. I let it go until this morning when I went out to start it. I disconnected the Optimate and turned the ignition over and .... it turned the motor over, barely, but wouldn't start. It was only just getting the motor to turn over but nowhere near strong enough to start it. Grrrrrr ...

I understand that there are some experienced Optimate peeps on the board so perhaps one of you would be kind enough to point me in the right direction that would be lovely.

Oh, on the occasions when SOS came to help out it started fine straight away - no problemo's at all.

Cheers,

TP