I got a 08 Phoenix a few weeks ago in great shape. My son has rode it probably about 10 or 15 miles so far, pretty cold on the fingers around here. any way, we were riding today, about 10 minutes in the trail when it stopped no sputter no nothing, dead. It will turn over and over but no start. I towed it back to the house and checked the fuel, plenty there. took the plug out and it was fine, seems the plug wire is a bad design though. so i tried to spray ether into the intake while turning over, no luck there either. so it drained the gas out of the carb thinking maybe the float was stuck but that didn't help. so i checked to see if it had spark, i did the old hold the plug to the side of the motor deal and had the boy turn it over, no spark there. kinda at my wits end here anybody got ideas???

 

did you make sure it's not a switch or kill switch shutting off the power? does sound it's a lack of fire issue.

 

yeah the kill switch is in the right position

 

just make sure thier isn't any corrsion built up on either switch. this just rules out both. check all connections to male sure they all good and no corrsion on that as well. these are the easy steps to check on.

 

ok i'll go do that and post back in a few thanx woody

 

ok went thru and checked all the wires and connections that i could see and checked the fuse by the battery all looked good. no corrosion on the switches either. put my meter in the spark plug wire and turned the engine over. no reading on the read-out. maybe the ignition coil is toast? i've heard the ecm on earlier models being bad. any ideas???

 

the ecm was more to do w/ the 450 and 500's then any thing else. maybe some one w/ a manual can give the testing procedures on the stator and or coil.

 

Check the slack in the throttle cable , there is an adjustment about 4" from the thumb throttle, tighten the screw so there is 1/8 inch of slack in the cable.This is called etc, electronic throttle control, its to prevent a run away if the cable sticks or freezes.

 

Ok, i popped the cap off the etc and the contacts were in the open position and the throttle cable slack looked good, i pushed the throttle to the stop and back and the contacts stayed open the whole time. I took the front plastic off and chased/checked all the wires again, i unplugged them one by one and checked for corrosion and dirt, all looked good. I'm leaning toward the ignition coil now but am getting desperate. Can anybody shed some light on this please?????

 

usually form what i have read it's never a bad coil and most of the time it's a stator or cdi issue. wish i could tell you more.