hey all,
I am writing in on behalf of my father. He is 77 years old and has bad knees but would still like to get outdoors to his shop and to cruise around his small acreage.
What he did was to buy a Baja 90 from Canadian Tire last year. Cheap price, small size for him, and he doesn't expect to be taking any jumps with it so it should last him awhile.

He rode it a few times and then it up and died on him. He checked all the usual
things like fuel, sparkplug, tether cutoff switch. Couldn't get it going. By the
time he got around to contacting canadian tire to see what was up,
they told him that the warranty was over. Since they don't do the warranty work there, he took it to the mechanic that does their warranty stuff. The guy charged him two hundred bucks and got it running. Again my father rode it a few times over the next few months and it died. Same thing. He doesn't want to spend more hundreds of dollars on it so it is just sitting there and so is he.

Another half of year has passed and I am visiting him now, (I live 300 miles away),so I thought I would try to get it going for him. I know that the battery is good as are the fuses and starter because i jumpered what i take to be the starter relay and the starter whirrs over. There is no power for anything else though... spark, lights, tailbrake.

The sparkplug is getting fuel as it is wet when we check it, but hey, no spark no fire.

So, I am thinking cdi unit? How would I go about checking it out?. I have heard of disconnecting one of the wires and it might start, I don't know.
There are a couple of more electrical components on the bike that the manual wiring scematic shows but doesn't label. one is not labeled and the other is labeled with asian lettering. I have no idea as to their funtion. Could one of these be a common problem?
Is there maybe another fuse other than the one under the seat connected to the battery?

Is there someplace to get a cdi for that in Canada?

Sorry for the life story and all the questions but any help would be appreciated

Thanks...

 

I bought one for my daughter last year and boy did I get F@@@ed over, it had not worked from day one and is the worst built atv ever made. Canadian Tire should somehow take some accountability for the product they sell; it would be nice to start a form on this crap A@@ BAJA 90 so that hopefully others don't make the same mistake and maybe get the message across to CT.

This is the latest problem I've been having, help if you can.

Hello all I have a question I bought a 90 CC Baja for my daughter at C.T the battery keep draining on me. I will assume is the charging system that is failing before I go to get this fixed I want to go to the shop with some knowledge and seem like I know what I am talking about ( instead of looking like a dumb a

 

With the key turned ahead......I think the lights should come on even if the quad is not started......My 150cc Powermax does..........Anyway.......If there is no Electrical at all.........Check the red engine kill switch...................Also does the brake need to be pulled in for the quad to start............Mine needs the brake engaged to start..........Just some thoughts............Also check for voltage at the key switch!!.....Caper....

 

thanks for the tips caperinmuskoka.
Am heading over there tomorrow and will definatly check them out.
I will let you know how I made out after the weekend.

Also I found a cdi unit for sale on ebay that may be a fit. If I can't
get it going this weekend I am going to try that route.

 

I'm going to say that it's the brake switch. I bought my son one and the switch is not mounted very well. An easy way to check it is, turn the key on and pull the brake,,, if the brake light comes on,,, I doubt that's your problem. I haven't had any problems with ours yet and have several hours on it. However, it is very cheaply made,,, I kinda assumed that it would be when I saw the selling price though. Just goes back to the old saying,,, "you get what you pay for". It shouldn't be too difficult to find the problem because it seems to be a very basic design.

 

Well, nothing worked for us on the weekend. Tried all of your suggestions thank you, but this thing is completely dead. No brake light or headlights. We tried unplugging the brake switch and touching the two wires together and still nothing. We also jumpered out the key switch and the rear safety tether kill switch. I am really leaning towards some critical electronic component has crapped on us. CDI? Unfortunatly the cdi unit I found on ebay has a different plug pattern than the one on my dads quad but both of the have 6 wires going to them so for the sake of 20 bucks I may buy it and see if I can rewire and make it work. I don't know. The other option is to talk him into taking it back to the repair shop but he is standing firm on not spending any more money on "that #@%$^ piece of crap." His words not mine...

 

Does his bike have the remote kill system? If so, sounds like it may be the culprit. If not, it almost has to be one of the safety devices. The lights should work as soon as the key is turned on. If you are good with a test light,,, track the cause of that problem and it should solve all problems.

 

I was just working on one of these on the weekend with similar symptoms.Bike was totally dead even with a charged battery...It would start however if I jumped power across the starter solonoid with the key turned on but no other electrical stuff was working...Later once I found the wiring schematics I removed the nose section of the body and started trouble shooting the wiring.It turns out the ignition switch was defective, possibly corroded from sitting over the winter...I jumped a wire from the red wire to the black coming from the ignition switch and we got all the power back..I installed a toggle switch to give it an on/off but after we ran it for a short while the ignition started working again.

 

Hey oldyeller, thanks that sounds very promising. will try the jumpered ignition asap

 

I say don't start by buying a CDI... The fact that the brake light won't work tells you the problem is further upstream so to speak. Oldyeller's theory sounds like a great one to test.