New Headlight - What a PITA

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New Headlight - What a PITA

Postby jcabiles » Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:32 pm

Those Teutonic engineers - they make great machines but they certainly don’t make it easy to do simple maintenance. Spent over an hour futzing around changing out my headlight on my RT-P. Even with small hands I had to fight through a cramped space with multiple wires getting in the way, retaining wires that would not release and room for only one hand. Even more frustrating, I got the back cover out, but it would not go back in. Ah, but persistence finally won out. I’m good to ride in the dark now.

One Fog Light left to replace. I need to set aside a weekend since lots of Tupperware needs to come off.

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Re: New Headlight - What a PITA

Postby thanatos1224 » Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:17 pm

mmm. sounds like a great thing to save for a Tech Day so you have plenty of spectators to point out the obvious.
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