Hey people I need some help. I have an 01 f4i and I am trying to get it started up and ready for the summer season. Back in January I started up my bike just to get her going and to make sure everything was still fine. Everything went normal, nothing out of the ordinary. But now just last week I tried to get her going again but no go. Battery is charged and hooked up to my car battery (not started) so that the bat doesnt die within 10 seconds of cranking, the lights all turn on n crap, and the fuel pump kicks in nice and strong. Bike cranks like a beast too, sounds normal just wont catch, it wont even think about starting just cranks all day. Since I got her started in January the only thing I have done is replace the rear tire and take out the left headlight bulb to hook up an HID light. But I have the regular lights in the bike right now not the HID's and when you turn the battery on all the lights light up and work fine. Me and my buddy thought spark plugs could be the prob so we pulled those (they looked like crap) and replaced em the other day. I was confident that would fix it but nope. She still turns over and cranks all day but no start. So we checked the spark plugs doing a spark test and none of the plugs are sparkin. So my guess would be bad coils or something of that nature I really dont know. I'v heard about headlights trippin and then preventing the bike from not starting...I'm startin to get mad so any advice or knowledge that you guys got would really be helpful

 

If the pump IS priming then the headlights are not the issue. If you're not getting spark to ANY (all) of the plugs then its not the coils. Chances are they wont all four fail at the same time.