bic_bicknell
The crack across the front of my instruments has been growing about a mm every month for a long time. Not leaking but it's only a matter of time so I've been hunting ebay and breakers yards.
Finally found one last week, sent an offer and got an '08 set for a fraction the £375 or whatever they are new. But get this, when it arrives I plug it in and the thing lights up but with no numbers - it's a duffer. Really pissed off because the guy insisted it was as new and came of a low mileage bike. When I look closely it seems it's been apart so I carefully unscrew the unit and find that it has been apart and was damaged - a couple of the posts moulded onto the clear front part have been broken off and reattached with superglue. But also there was a whole part of the unit missing that connects the three rubber mode buttons to the PCB! First time I ever got ripped off on ebay.
I sent a message to the seller who said he was as surprised as me because he was sold it on good faith by someone else. I said that I would be able to repair the clear front part and use it on my own working instruments but that I wanted a large part of the price I paid refunded. He agreed so it seems we are all OK.
Anyway, all I wanted really was a non-cracked front so I epoxied the posts in properly and swapped it over with my cracked one. Now I get to keep my genuine mileage which is really an all round better solution. Can't think why KTM don't sell the front clear part as a separate part - especially as they are prone to cracking or leaking.
This is how the replacement lit up without actually working.
Finally found one last week, sent an offer and got an '08 set for a fraction the £375 or whatever they are new. But get this, when it arrives I plug it in and the thing lights up but with no numbers - it's a duffer. Really pissed off because the guy insisted it was as new and came of a low mileage bike. When I look closely it seems it's been apart so I carefully unscrew the unit and find that it has been apart and was damaged - a couple of the posts moulded onto the clear front part have been broken off and reattached with superglue. But also there was a whole part of the unit missing that connects the three rubber mode buttons to the PCB! First time I ever got ripped off on ebay.
I sent a message to the seller who said he was as surprised as me because he was sold it on good faith by someone else. I said that I would be able to repair the clear front part and use it on my own working instruments but that I wanted a large part of the price I paid refunded. He agreed so it seems we are all OK.
Anyway, all I wanted really was a non-cracked front so I epoxied the posts in properly and swapped it over with my cracked one. Now I get to keep my genuine mileage which is really an all round better solution. Can't think why KTM don't sell the front clear part as a separate part - especially as they are prone to cracking or leaking.
This is how the replacement lit up without actually working.