Any advice/ info on where to get good quality product (lids, bags and fender) without paying an arm leg and my first born? Also fiberglass vs abs?

 

Been asked a thousand times.. If you want nice quality at a great price call Fairing Factory... 1g for lids with 6x9 abs fender and 5 inch stretched bags with angles...

 

Do saddlebag workers offer a big difference in sound quality while moving?

 

I was quoted $750 by HD for painted-to-match bag lids, for a '14 SG. 4-5 week delivery. That's lids only. The speaker kit is another about 400 as I remember. Then, there's installation unless you do it yourself. To put things in perspective…

To sbeast, who I think was asking what difference the rear speakers make while riding down the road…the answer I got from others who have them is, they're largely for the passenger. At speed (70/80 mph) the rider won't hear them very well. (This is the reason I opted for lowers/speakers on my SG. I was told they do make a difference volume-wise for the rider at speed. Cost: 700 lowers painted-to-match, 279 for speakers, 279 for painted-to-match speaker enclosures).

Alan

 

Bags and fenders that are commonly used

• Top Shop - take directly to the painter
• Camtech (I run these) - some minor body work required
• TOL - some minor body work required
• Fairing Factory - get ready for lotsa body work unless you are lucky
• Sinister - hit and miss - some are perfect out of the box, others require hours of work

Speaker Lids:

• Hogtunes - awesome out of the box
• Cyclesounds - require some work
• Harley factory - limited speaker selection but factory fitment
• Others - hit and miss
• Voodoo - lotsa body work

 

I just went through this this month, I went with the CVO style bags and a take off set of oem saddlebag lids. The lids don't come with speaker screens so I had to order the harley boom speakers just to have the screens and figured the booms would be good enough. Wrong, I can't hear them going 45mph over my boom tour pack speakers using a BT 4180 180 watt per channel amp. Now I'm looking at replacing the booms with biketronics 6x9 replacement speakers but my advice is to go read in the audio forum and see what they have done to see what works.
I got a great deal on the harley lids already oem painted for $200 shipped so it was hard to turn down.

 

You have not used Fairing Factory then.. No problems and no body work. Just scuffed and way cheaper than all above... How much are all the above aprox.. He also said for a good price. So since you know about the above quality how much are the above. Or are you just going off word of mouth. Have you actually used and bought all of the above. If you say its luck then Ive bought 3 sets of overlay fenders/5 inch stretched bags/speaker lids. All perfect and All for 1 grand.. All others above are way over that cost.
Don't take my post the wrong way.. But The fact is he asked for quality at a good price.

 

here are pics before and after paint

 

^ Why don't the exhaust openings match properly on those Fairing Factory parts? It looks like the exhaust opening is much higher in the saddlebag than the fender. If I was going through all that trouble and expense, I would think the parts should complement each other better.

 

I absolutely agree. That's why I went with TopShop. I just need to adjust the left bag better, no biggie.