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?

 

 

https://www.hdforums.com/forum/sport...l#post16484661

 

Common problem on the '04-'06 Sportsters. The last link gives several solutions. Those original clips were definitely designed by someone who had a lousy childhood.

 

Thanks y'all

 

Harley has an upgrade for the clips that are almost as bad as the ones they replace . Drill a small hole in the clip and drop a plastic wire tie down thru it

 

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 .

 

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?