Heated grips

[Twintens]

Have a UK 2016 non ES. Owned it for a month-ish now and actually assumed it didn't have heated grips as i didn't see it on the dash, and hadn't really looked closely at my left and right grips (until today) Today i fitted 20mm risers which took all of 20 mins and did the flat seat mod. As i rode out of my storage parking back to my house was feeling very good with myself as i rode in 35c heqt until my hands (in gloves) got so hot i had to pull into a service station. On the dash i could now see the heated grips sign and its on full. I head back to my house as its not far and park and have a closer look. Bike obviously has heated grips (good news) but i cant see a way of turning them off in the menu. I have toggled to the heat setting and can see HIGH-MED-LOW but no OFF. Read through the forum and the manual and it looks like there should be an OFF in there ? I now appear to have heated grips that have come on that are stuck on high after installing the bar risers (no idea why this would make any difference) and i cant see a way to turn them off or even select LOW for now whilst i figure this out. Former owner may have retrofitted them as i was led to understand they didn't come on the non-ES model.
Is there supposed to be an OFF setting in that HIGH-MED-LOW section ? and any direction as to how to turn them off. I selected low and put the level to 1 but the grips are still too hot -not ideal in this weather.

 

[SkunkWorks]

"Off" should be no bacon-strips showing. (toggle all the way down)
Low - Medium - High should be 1 bacon-strip - 2 bacon-strips - and 3 bacon-strips showing.

You obviously have the low-med-high settings. It's odd there would be no selection for "None"

If there is absolutely no setting in the menu to turn them off, you can remove the right-side body panel that covers the battery and all the electrics. Find the two electrical plugs for the heated-grips and unplug them. One is black and the other is white. They should be toward the front, near where the factory tool-storage is.





I am not sure if there is a separate fuse just for these? It may be included with other electrical items, but you might be able to just pull a fuse also?

 

[Twintens]

Skunkworks, thanks for the quick reply. I was just trying to find out if there was a fuse also. I’ve checked and checked again but there is no ‘OFF” in my menu settings and my heated grips diagram is showing three bacon strips whatever I do in the settings -really odd. I can attest to the fact that HIGH on 10 is extremely hot!

Heading out to take that panel off and unplug them for now so I can actually ride the bike instead of roasting my hands!

Will look at this again when I have more info.

 

[holligl]

Have a UK 2016 non ES. Owned it for a month-ish now and actually assumed it didn't have heated grips as i didn't see it on the dash, and hadn't really looked closely at my left and right grips (until today) Today i fitted 20mm risers which took all of 20 mins and did the flat seat mod. As i rode out of my storage parking back to my house was feeling very good with myself as i rode in 35c heqt until my hands (in gloves) got so hot i had to pull into a service station. On the dash i could now see the heated grips sign and its on full. I head back to my house as its not far and park and have a closer look. Bike obviously has heated grips (good news) but i cant see a way of turning them off in the menu. I have toggled to the heat setting and can see HIGH-MED-LOW but no OFF. Read through the forum and the manual and it looks like there should be an OFF in there ? I now appear to have heated grips that have come on that are stuck on high after installing the bar risers (no idea why this would make any difference) and i cant see a way to turn them off or even select LOW for now whilst i figure this out. Former owner may have retrofitted them as i was led to understand they didn't come on the non-ES model.
Is there supposed to be an OFF setting in that HIGH-MED-LOW section ? and any direction as to how to turn them off. I selected low and put the level to 1 but the grips are still too hot -not ideal in this weather.

The heat "settings" allow you to set the levels from 1 to 10 for each setting, for example Low = 5, Med = 7, High = 10. No off capability in the settings, as it is turned off by toggling down the bacon strips.
If your strips are showing, just press the bottom Menu toggle switch. Three times if you are set on 3 strips. Strips should be gone (Off). Press the top one to toggle up.

 

[Twintens]

The heat "settings" allow you to set the levels from 1 to 10 for each setting, for example Low = 5, Med = 7, High = 10. No off capability in the settings, as it is turned off by toggling down the bacon strips.
If your strips are showing, just press the bottom Menu toggle switch. Three times if you are set on 3 strips. Strips should be gone (Off). Press the top one to toggle up.

Ok, This looks like great feedback. I did not try this and thought that you would have to go into the settings to turn them down or even turn them off. Utterly makes sense that you should be able to do this on the move without going into the menu settings. The manual is not clear on this. When i'm back at the bike tomorrow I will plug them back in and then try and toggle them when the bacon strips are showing and see what happens.
Thanks muchly

 

[Bmwdumptruck]

Daft question, but when you set them to no ‘bacon strips’ showing, you are leaving them long enough to cool down. I fitted OE grips to mine, bought for me, at christmas. Mine def have four settings, a grip with no lines is off, one line low, two medium, three high. But if they’ve been on high for a while they’ll take a while to cool down.

 

[Twintens]

Daft question, but when you set them to no ‘bacon strips’ showing, you are leaving them long enough to cool down. I fitted OE grips to mine, bought for me, at christmas. Mine def have four settings, a grip with no lines is off, one line low, two medium, three high. But if they’ve been on high for a while they’ll take a while to cool down.

My issue is I couldn’t seem to set them to anything other than high but as above I was trying to change these settings inside the menu and not from the “bacon strips” diagram. It must be the combination of age and the 36c heat we had today! Having said that and in defence, the entire heated grips diagramatic was not viewable on my dash until today for some odd reason after I finished fiddling with my handlebars fitting some risers.
Im going to pick the bike up tomorrow morning and will try and change those settings when the grip and bacon strips are showing as it appears there is no need to get into the menu settings to do that. All this talk of bacon strips has made me hungry………..

 

[SkunkWorks]

OK Twintens,
I think I understand where your confusion came from.

Like Holligl stated, this is the "Heat Settings" menu. You have to drill down into the settings to get to it, and is only used to specify the level of power that you want each of the (low-med-high) levels to have.
This is not where you turn them on and off from.



To turn them "Off -Low-Medium-High" while you are riding down the road, you press the Menu "Trigger" button (which is the one located by your left index-finger), and then you should see a picture of the "Handgrip" displayed at the top of the page-display screen.





Then you use the Up-Down "Toggle" Button to change the level of Bacon-Strips........................Keep toggling all the way up for all three displayed (Highest level)
Toggle back down for Medium, Low, and OFF (no bacon-strips displayed)

Once you have them set where you want, press the Trigger "Menu" button again with your left index-finger to return back to the "Pages" menu. You will now be able to cycle through the pages with the Thumb "Toggle" button (up or down). The handgrip will no longer be displayed at the top of the page, but they will still remain "ON" whatever setting you left them on.
To change their level again or turn them back on or off, press the index-trigger button again and you will see the handgrip displayed once again at the top of the page.



Hope this helps you better understand how to use them.

 

[WJBertrand]

The above is a perfect description how to use them. The settings page just lets you customize the amount of heat you want for each setting.

I’m thinking you might have a broken wire to one of the grips, probably the right one. After you manipulated everything fitting the risers, they inadvertently reconnected and suddenly you have heat! If there’s a break in the wire then grip heater adjustment menu page will disappear until the open circuit is repaired.

If the page disappears again you’ll have to investigate where the break is.


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[Twintens]

Post update - Skunkworks, thanks so much for the detailed explanation. Went over to storage this morning, pulled the side panel, reconnected the white and black connectors. Started the bike and then used the trigger to switch to the pic of the handle with bacon strips and just toggled down and off they went! All very obvious really...........
I usually don't post until i absolutely can't find a solution so there is a lesson learned here -READ THE MANUAL PROPERLY
In an attempt at defence i absolutely didn't think my UK non-ES 2016 bike had OEM heated grips and they did not show up anyway in any of the menu settings this past month of ownership which confirmed (erroneously) to me that the bike didn't have them.
WJBertrand is right in that in fitting risers yesterday i inadvertently somehow triggered the grips and they came on on full high at setting 10 and appeared on the dash. I was always playing catch up at that point as now i could see them on the dash and needed to switch them off quickly, I ended up in settings searching for HIGH-MED-LOW-OFF but in the wrong place.
Thanks to all who helped (patiently), so glad i'm on the forum.
Now spending Sunday morning reading the entire manual................
WJBertrand, i see you are in Ventura, CA, my daughter went to school in Westlake Village so i know your roads well and miss them!

 

[Longdog Cymru]

I have Oxford heated grips on my 2017 non-ES bike, I wonder if you can connect the Oxfords to the wiring for the Yamaha heated grips? If you can, would they show up on the screen menu?

 

[WJBertrand]

Post update - Skunkworks, thanks so much for the detailed explanation. Went over to storage this morning, pulled the side panel, reconnected the white and black connectors. Started the bike and then used the trigger to switch to the pic of the handle with bacon strips and just toggled down and off they went! All very obvious really...........
I usually don't post until i absolutely can't find a solution so there is a lesson learned here -READ THE MANUAL PROPERLY
In an attempt at defence i absolutely didn't think my UK non-ES 2016 bike had OEM heated grips and they did not show up anyway in any of the menu settings this past month of ownership which confirmed (erroneously) to me that the bike didn't have them.
WJBertrand is right in that in fitting risers yesterday i inadvertently somehow triggered the grips and they came on on full high at setting 10 and appeared on the dash. I was always playing catch up at that point as now i could see them on the dash and needed to switch them off quickly, I ended up in settings searching for HIGH-MED-LOW-OFF but in the wrong place.
Thanks to all who helped (patiently), so glad i'm on the forum.
Now spending Sunday morning reading the entire manual................
WJBertrand, i see you are in Ventura, CA, my daughter went to school in Westlake Village so i know your roads well and miss them!

Westlake Village is not too far from me, just over the LA/Ventura county line. We are blessed with a lot of fun roads around here, that’s for sure.


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[Bmwdumptruck]

I have Oxford heated grips on my 2017 non-ES bike, I wonder if you can connect the Oxfords to the wiring for the Yamaha heated grips? If you can, would they show up on the screen menu?

Pretty sure the answer to this is in the big thread on heated grips. Pretty sure someone did manage to do it. I was going to try until I found new OE grips via Partszilla in america, posted via the wifes friend in ohio. They weren’t much dearer than Oxford grips that way.

 

[Saint rob]

I have Oxford heated grips on my 2017 non-ES bike, I wonder if you can connect the Oxfords to the wiring for the Yamaha heated grips? If you can, would they show up on the screen menu?

Yes is the answer and you also get into that deeper menu to adjust the heat settings for the 3 levels. I posted about it on here somewhere in one of the heated grip threads when I did it.