Hi all, I just received 2 new front blinkers, the lenses on mine are cracking up badly and you cant seem to order the lenses sperate or dissamble them, so had to buy the whole thing Thus I wondered how easy it is to find the connectors for the front blinkers? Basically my question is, would I have to remove all of the front fairing to reach the connectors? Or none of that and simply follow the cables to the end? Haven't had the chance to look at this, will be a job for the weekend. And even the Service Manual doesnt state anything of the front blinkers in its 1252 pages. Meanwhile, wanted to ask here. Thx all!
update, just took a look: no, it does not just trace back. the plug is deeper now I wonder do i have to remove that fucking tank with all its cables, hoses and shit or would it suffice to remove the sidepanels alone to reach the plugs?
okay, first of all, bullshit to remove tank, to remove anything in that matter... I just wasted hours spending removing tupperware while it was not needed. I do not know how the mechanics do it, but how I reached the connectors was in a difficult manner. The problem is that the connectors are under the black blocks under the plastic tank cover....here is the left side. I suspect that much more needs to be removed to get that piece away to easily approach all the connectors behind it. But if you 'simply just follow' the cable, you will find the connector at the end, only they are seated in a rubber housing of some sort and are very difficult to reach, especially at the left side. However from the bottom of the bike, with patience, you can reach em and with some tools for the left side, you can get it out of the housing. This is the easy side, the right side: Here the connector can be easily pulled out of the housing to disconnect the connector itself: Than we have the left side > The cable is hard to track to the housing, the housing is even difficult to see, so its all on feeling. I managed to use one long plier to keep the connector out of the housing and with a knife and some heavy fiddling, I managed to push the pin in so I could pull the connector out, all with the same knife, so i think I might have damaged the receiving female connector in the process, but in the end I could connect my new blinker into the connector.
here are the old blinkers with broken worn lenses here the new 2 questions. 1. am I the only one? seems so .... the bike was a loaners bike from the dealers but still, how does one explain those worn lenses? 2. if not, is the quality of the lenses that bad they cannot endure frontal debris from high speed riding? On the other hand, the only 'debris' I can think of on that height, are flies and bugs etc...I dont see stones go that high, especially since all I do is road and highway and zero off roading. Strange huh
You could have snipped the wires and joined them at the lamp unit with solder and heat shrink... but you already did it... only just saw the post.. Mine were fine at 7500 miles -- whats the mileage you have done? My bike is (was) garaged.. so does not see weather...
bought @ 11.000km end april '17, loaners bike from the dealers. Now @ 29.750km (desmo due coming) Dont need the bike for work, so just for fun/trips/weekends, but all season & all weather, however will avoid rain and especially salty roads when not needed. when not on the road...stalled in warm moist free garage. (in house) With TLC. I do remember the lenses being far from 'perfect' I guess once they start, it'll only worsen, no matter what.
Oh my giddy aunt, they're in a terrible state for a 3 year old bike! Before you ownership had it been underwater? Not as a submariner but in a flood, I ask as I have a 2017 and mine are perfect at 16K miles!
1. demo bike from duc dealer, who knows what happened during demos, how it was handled, where it stood, etc 2. verified fall, scratch marks at the left fork below the axle bolt and a warped left disc brake I made a whole topic as to why I experienced so much vibration under hard braking. Plus side, I replaced the oem discs for the upgraded ones wich have a larger diameter and also used better pads wich are running perfectly to this day. More stopping power and longer life, the white colored ones as I remember. 3. top left cockpit fairing, the black part came loose from the rest of the fairing, so the glue dried up and fixed it with Sugru 4. bottom bolt hole for the mudguard was stripped, could get around it with rubber and a longer bolt to reached the non stripped end 5. some missing rubber cable ties, wich I bought spares 6. damaged plastic hole that keep the metal thread in place for a screw, from the the black undertray of under the beak section So yeah, it was clearly used, damaged and maybe somewhat neglected as a dealer bike from the dealer. In the end its all cosmetic, outside the brakes, and all the mechanical and electronic stuff still work as it should. It drinks oil around a litre per 4000 kilometers, but thats within limits and all 2015 first years seem to have that 'characteristic' But with some TLC from my part, nobody would say it had a rough first 2 years Around 24K under my watch, the bike has now 35.684 km and still going strong with nice OEM and other upgrades added!
As a demo bike they may have used some pretty strong cleaning products. They only tend to keep these bikes for 6-9 months so tend not to care about this sort of damage and vigorous jet washing etc. I always instruct my dealer to please not wash my bike as part of any service. They think they're doing you a favour but usually the job of some underling who doesn't really give a rats arse about your bike.
Cannot offer any advice I'm afraid - but if it were an ST2 you would probably need to remove the crankshaft .
