I have not noticed and issue with having power, just that it over heats if I pull power to go up hill. I keep up with the others I ride with who all have 700s as well. It did overheat after a long drive at higher speeds when we got on a road that accessed the park. As soon as we left the level road and started to climb the temp went up.
I washed the radiator when it first happened at the end of the day. No help for day two. I got a stick thru the grill bent over a couple fins, should be no issue. Water was boiling in radiator, could hear it so not a false indication, dealer checked temp and said it was not an indication issue. I would hope if they put a code reader of some type on it, it would have stored a code if anything like lean burn or O2 sensors were bad. Not trusting that they did anything at this point.
When it first happened, I did not notice the heat until the red light came on, the display defaults to fuel. We had stopped to take a break after climbing to the windmills in Windrock. When we stopped and got out I noticed the overflow dripping. Then heard the boil. I turned on the key without starting to run the fan, it immediately kicked on. Now I understand this cools the water in the radiator and not in the engine, but its a start. After the fan cooled and shutoff, I started the engine, the bars were at 3 and it wet down to 2 quickly. Each time after it heated up to 4 bars I stopped climbing, pulled over, shutdown the engine but kept the key on to run the fan. This got me back under way sooner. My buds I was riding with pulled over kept their engines running waiting for me to cool off with no more than two bars on their temps the entire climb, wait and continued. After I started having problems we all set our displays to temp each time we started. Annoying that it goes back to fuel each time.
Yes, if climbing and it heats up, if the trail levels off I can count on it cooling back down without killing the engine.
Add thermostat to unlikely that it only sticks going up hill.
