Repair for Indicator lights (left side)
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Repair for Indicator lights (left side)
So my 2012 Superglide's indicator lights (Left turn, high beam and Neutral) had gone out a few years ago. I asked for help at that time about it and although it was a common enough problem, no one had a solution for it other then replacing the whole unit from Harley. Well, in Canada that part is about $275.00 as you have to buy the whole harness assembly and not just the little circuit board that holds the LED lights.
Now a lot of people think its cause water gets into the board and causes a sort. Well after a ton of research and scouring the net I can across this fix and the root cause of why these lights go out. This is not my fix, but someone a lot more clever then I am...I am passing this along to anyone else who is in the same boat as I am and wants a cheap fix for this.
First water has nothing to do with it...if water got in there in the first place it would short out the whole board, not just a few lights on the left side. What I have been able to find out is that these boards, have a weak spot on them between R9 and C4. This spot get hot and over time melts the plastic and shorts out. This is why only the left side goes out. See pic below. See the little white spot on the board between R9 and C4...this is the spot that has worn though and shorted out.
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Now the fix is to soldier a little wire in between these two spots. basically bridging these two components. Now I am in the middle of doing this myself and although others who have done this say it works, I personally won't know for a few weeks as my bike is torn down for paint....but it is one solution instead of spending a whole lot of money on something that is going to do it again....
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Now a lot of people think its cause water gets into the board and causes a sort. Well after a ton of research and scouring the net I can across this fix and the root cause of why these lights go out. This is not my fix, but someone a lot more clever then I am...I am passing this along to anyone else who is in the same boat as I am and wants a cheap fix for this.
First water has nothing to do with it...if water got in there in the first place it would short out the whole board, not just a few lights on the left side. What I have been able to find out is that these boards, have a weak spot on them between R9 and C4. This spot get hot and over time melts the plastic and shorts out. This is why only the left side goes out. See pic below. See the little white spot on the board between R9 and C4...this is the spot that has worn though and shorted out.
Attachment 618298
Now the fix is to soldier a little wire in between these two spots. basically bridging these two components. Now I am in the middle of doing this myself and although others who have done this say it works, I personally won't know for a few weeks as my bike is torn down for paint....but it is one solution instead of spending a whole lot of money on something that is going to do it again....
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