I've seen a few things around the forum discussing water issues but none with a problem quite like the one I've been seeing so I figure I'd ask and see if anyone has any insight. Within the last month, I bought an 850i and the day I bought it, we went through water that may have been a foot deep and it got sputtering terribly. When you would try a hard acceleration it would quit almost immediately. I had to restart it several times not knowing what was going on. The next day, I started it and rode it for an hour with no problem. Following that, as soon as I washed it, the problem came back. This led me to believe it was an electrical issue if some sort and since then I've looked at all the connectors, greased the ones I have been able to get to and the problem still remains. There are also two other people in the area I live in having this problem. One of them is a friend of mine so we started looking at his as well to see what we could find and we found that when water was sprayed directly under the bed and above the coils, the problem could consistently be recreated. After finding that, he took his to a dealer and they got the problem to show up but said all sensors were not showing any issues and corporate had never heard of this issue so the only advice they gave was to "be careful washing the machine". If anyone has bad any experience with these issues or had a little bit of insight I'd greatly appreciate it. These electrical gremlins have just about exhausted me
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