Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

[Vijay Thacker]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

All depends upon your riding style, speed, which gear you are riding at.Highways relaxed cruising gives superb FE for dominar that i can vouch for.
Regular city rides gives around 30-33kmpl.I have achieved around 41kmpl on highway runs from ahmedabad to rajasthan with speed around 80-90.

[jayant.jayant]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Usable tank range for Dominar is 10ltrs you need to leave around 3 ltr for the fuel pump goes for most fuel injection Motorcycles. With a controlled right hand i use to do 350 kms on 10 little bit more bit less (300kms is easy) , with fast riding it drops to 280kms. Within city it use to give constant 24.8kmpl on highway the worst was 26kmpl where i was riding very fast.
Staying till 120kph with a modulating throttle and gradual acceleration would give best mileage.
Mine was first lot 2017 one of the very first delivered in Delhi.

Agreed. I normally top up my fuel tank once I start getting the low fuel level indication. Just once I have been to belgaum from Goa via choral ghat and back . I got a FE around 32kmpl. I was happy with what I got. That too before the 1st free service. Hopefully I get to ride on a longer trip.

[jayant.jayant]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Yes ofcourse. You should only ride your bike based on your comfort levels... Not based on the others'
Safe riding!

Thanks will surely keep that in mind.

[jayant.jayant]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

All depends upon your riding style, speed, which gear you are riding at.Highways relaxed cruising gives superb FE for dominar that i can vouch for.
Regular city rides gives around 30-33kmpl.I have achieved around 41kmpl on highway runs from ahmedabad to rajasthan with speed around 80-90.

Wow. The FE readings you have got are amazing.

[J_ARTLY]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Hi,
I am having dominar ug 19 model purchased Aug 19. Recently i have ordered simtac ug 19 model flasher with 9 pin connector. But when i opened head light unit to install i found it to be 6 pin connector as in 18 model. Does anyone faced same issue. I m in doubt that how 19 version can have connector with 6 pins. Please clarify. Thanks

[Andy_kristine]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Are the USD forks on this bike SFF? Seperate functioning?

[Ijs]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Are the USD forks on this bike SFF? Seperate functioning?

No , this is endurance unit not the wp one of the duke.

[Andy_kristine]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

No , this is endurance unit not the wp one of the duke.

God, such a relief!
Thank you..

[_kamikaze_]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Has anyone here connected the mobile charger via ignition switch instead of from battery ? Reason I ask is that in a lot of facebook groups, forums etc I see people suggesting to connect mobile charger to the ignition switch so there's no chance of accidentally draining the battery, but NOWHERE could I find a video or post describing how to do this connection when there are tons of videos for various DIY tasks.

Can someone shed some light on this or point me to some place which provides instructions to get this done ?

[Throttlefreak]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Has anyone here connected the mobile charger via ignition switch instead of from battery ? Reason I ask is that in a lot of facebook groups, forums etc I see people suggesting to connect mobile charger to the ignition switch so there's no chance of accidentally draining the battery, but NOWHERE could I find a video or post describing how to do this connection when there are tons of videos for various DIY tasks.

Can someone shed some light on this or point me to some place which provides instructions to get this done ?

You can connect the charger to the horn terminal because it switches on, only when the ignition switches on. Also you can put a switch in series with the charger to turn it on or off.

[sandsbhatre]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Has anyone here connected the mobile charger via ignition switch instead of from battery ? Reason I ask is that in a lot of facebook groups, forums etc I see people suggesting to connect mobile charger to the ignition switch so there's no chance of accidentally draining the battery, but NOWHERE could I find a video or post describing how to do this connection when there are tons of videos for various DIY tasks.

Can someone shed some light on this or point me to some place which provides instructions to get this done ?

Hi,

Our Bikes have wirings with specific voltage and current draw, its not recommended to use the internal wiring for mobile charger/ fog lamps/ extra horn. An Additional load on the wiring may cause problems since we got efi, abs etc.

I suggest you use power directly from the battery for the charger and use a relay to turn it on.
A relay is an electronic switch which turns on when bike is turned on. Connect the relay with any source(drl/ ignition/ horn) so that when you turn on with the key, only then the charger comes on.

Ive attached an image which i used to power my 18watt MI fastCharger socket.

[_kamikaze_]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Hi,

Our Bikes have wirings with specific voltage and current draw, its not recommended to use the internal wiring for mobile charger/ fog lamps/ extra horn. An Additional load on the wiring may cause problems since we got efi, abs etc.

I suggest you use power directly from the battery for the charger and use a relay to turn it on.
A relay is an electronic switch which turns on when bike is turned on. Connect the relay with any source(drl/ ignition/ horn) so that when you turn on with the key, only then the charger comes on.

Ive attached an image which i used to power my 18watt MI fastCharger socket.

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Huh, heard of using relays before but didn't know this is how they work, I like this idea, Thanks !

Will be useful since I'll need to install fog lamps soon as well but what needs to be the voltage/Amp rating for the relay ? There are 12V 30A relays on amazon, will those do ?

[sandsbhatre]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

Huh, heard of using relays before but didn't know this is how they work, I like this idea, Thanks !

Will be useful since I'll need to install fog lamps soon as well but what needs to be the voltage/Amp rating for the relay ? There are 12V 30A relays on amazon, will those do ?

Relays are great. You should get a 4-pin relay, inline -fuse at any local garage shop for cheap. Ive been using UnoMinda for more than a year now.

Here is a pic of my wiring harness for fog lamps, its similar for charger.

Complete Wiring can be as below:

1)wire from +ve Battery terminal --> 10amp inline fuse --> pin 87.
2)pin 30 ---> +ve/red wire of ( fog / charger) .
3)wire from drl/ignition --> on-off switch --> pin 86.
4)-ve/black wire of fog/charger + pin 85 wire --> Ground (any bare metal bolt of bike)

Request you to remove -ve terminal (first) and +ve terminal of battery beforehand.

If you do go to a mechanic, force him to use the relays and fuse, they get arrogant sometimes with their methods.

Also if anyone finds a way to improve this, id be happy to know.[emoji851][emoji2937]

[_kamikaze_]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

No, this wiring will be a DIY. My regular mechanic is a bit proud and arrogant, despite all my requests he will end up doing what he thinks is best. And I also need to address some vibrations coming from the headlamp assembly so would be good opportunity to get that done as well.

Will the Amp rating in the relay matter ? I have a 80 amp relay, it should be good enough right ? Or do I need to go for a lower rating ?

[sandsbhatre]

Re: Bajaj Dominar 400 Ownership Experience Thread

No, this wiring will be a DIY. My regular mechanic is a bit proud and arrogant, despite all my requests he will end up doing what he thinks is best. And I also need to address some vibrations coming from the headlamp assembly so would be good opportunity to get that done as well.

Will the Amp rating in the relay matter ? I have a 80 amp relay, it should be good enough right ? Or do I need to go for a lower rating ?

12v 30amp should do the job.