Battery cover on 2004 roadster keeps coming off
Battery cover on 2004 roadster keeps coming off
The battery cover on my bike keeps undoing every time I ride, the rubber grommet that is attached at the bottom is basically gone. However I just feel like the snaps that attach the cover to the battery case housing are crappy to begin with. Anyone else have this issue, solutions?
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My new 2016 883 Iron has the same clips as your's and kept falling off also . Harley told me they fixed the problem , liars ! So I did what many have had to do and drilled a hole through the cover and inserted a cotter pin . The update kit I looked at from the dealer's parts department was the same clips that are on my 2016 .
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So what I did was just remove the clip portion from the cover, under it was the original screw hole so I just used a zip tie and tied it to the frame. Works just fine and dandy but god damn what a shitty design and after all these years it's still not fixed?
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