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.