OK, the first real problem with the bike. First of all, it has always somehow been so that I had electrical problems with the vehicles I owned.
That includes 3 cars and over 30 bikes plus a plethora of scooters and an e-bike. Always.
So this time it is CFMoto and its left handlebar switch. Well, the funny thing is that it's not all of the switch that's bust - it's just the blinkers. Everything else (horn, high/low beam, emergency lights) works just fine.
So I got the new handlebar switch assembly from the official CFMoto shop on taobao (TMall to be exact) and took it to the shop to be replaced. Well, to replace that, you need to tear half the bike apart (side panels, seat, tank, speedo assembly). That's not exactly maintenance-friendly. Anyways, once the switch was replaced, ... the result was the same: everything works, blinkers don't.
Right.
So we check the fuses - all good. We disassemble the old switch itself - short circuiting the power to the blinker micro-weld gives the blinking lights (both left and right). We peel off the protective coat off of the wires and go down the whole wire length - turns out the blinkers' power wire was snapped halfway down from the switch.
Then we disassemble the second switch, test it - it gives the same result. We check the wires - blinkers' power wire in the new switch assembly is snapped in approximately the same place.
WTF is that, may I ask?
Now, it's either that it's a factory problem, and all the left handlebar switch assemblies are screwed right off of the production line, or the switch I got from CFMoto's OFFICIAL store was used before, was snapped, was cleaned, packed, and sent to me "as new".
Either way, it just doesn't feel right.
Well, the problem has been solved, the blinkers blink alright. If any of the CFMoto owners here has the same problem - don't hurry to replace the switch, most likely you won't need to.