PolarisUtah

Hm. Well, I don't know if this helps but here is my two cents. I recently bought a 96' sl 900 that had the very same ground wire fried when I got it, it wouldn't turn over or anything obviously. So I opened the electronics box and replaced the ground wire, it would start up but the display still wouldn't work so I went back into the box and checked the main fuse in there, it looked perfect but completely failed a continuity test. After replacing it the display works fine but it also does not turn completely off, ever. It always displays the time and if you hit the mode button everything lights up, this is without the key in. Anyways I don't know that they ever turn completely off, I have since then had it out a bunch of times and have had no problems with the ground wire frying or the battery going dead. Hope this helps?