2012 Touring Issues
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From: anacoco, la
My voltage regulator died with less than 300 miles on the bike. My bike was stuck at the dealer for a week along with 6 other 2012 touring bikes with the same issue. 3 of them were orange that had the chrome regulators.
HD has the voltage regulators on back order so I don't think this is a limited number of people that are having issues. They could have switched to a new vendor or changed something with the regulators that is causing the issue.
I have had 1500 trouble free miles since having the regulator replaced.
My 2011 Softail had zero issues after 8000 miles.
HD has the voltage regulators on back order so I don't think this is a limited number of people that are having issues. They could have switched to a new vendor or changed something with the regulators that is causing the issue.
I have had 1500 trouble free miles since having the regulator replaced.
My 2011 Softail had zero issues after 8000 miles.
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Those radios have been crapping out for 6 years.
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but, consider this. the voltage regulator has a part number of 74505-09, which means that this iteration came out in 2009. there is nothing special about this regulator that is different in the 2012, than 2009, 2010, or 2011. so i would not say that it is a specific problem with the 2012 model, but more likely a bad batch of voltage regulators, which could easily be on any year model bike......
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I like that. I read that 07's were the only ones with problems. I have 67k on mine with just a few things that were not right.
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You got me confused, you bought an '11, but it seems to you there are an abundant amount of problems with '12s? My guess is you are reading the forum stuff and not getting accurate data from the complete sampling of HD owners? The forum is going to be biased, for instance, I have never had a problem with my '12, or my '08 for that matter, but I read on here every day of people who do, or at least think they do, but I have never posted about all the good experiences I have had. I am sure most happy '12 owners aren't posting their happiness either. How many times do people bitch about a restaurant's poor service, yet never go out of their way to compliment good service? It's the same thing here .............
There ya go. Ruining a perfectly good thread with a lot of potential for entertainment with all that logical crap.
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Saw a couple of posts on here involving orange bikes. Maybe its not a 2012 thing maybe its an orange bike thing? Glad I bought a red bike... I guess I'll keep it. Honestly, its not related to money at all! 
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2011 vs 2012
Mine's been great, not a problem one, just got back from a 200 mile ride. I don't put a lot of faith in anything I read on the WWW. Some of the crap I have read on this forum makes me wonder why some of these folks bought motorcycles in general let alone Harley Davidson's.
I got one of the first 2012 Road Glide Ultras in my area - picked it up August 20. I had two issues - both minor. I had the left front saddlebag bracket come loose - no big deal. And one end of the script Harley Davidson on the Tour Pak came loose. That was a plus because my dealer removed it and, per my request, just handed me the new one, which I didn't want installed anyway.
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You got me confused, you bought an '11, but it seems to you there are an abundant amount of problems with '12s? My guess is you are reading the forum stuff and not getting accurate data from the complete sampling of HD owners? The forum is going to be biased, for instance, I have never had a problem with my '12, or my '08 for that matter, but I read on here every day of people who do, or at least think they do, but I have never posted about all the good experiences I have had. I am sure most happy '12 owners aren't posting their happiness either. How many times do people bitch about a restaurant's poor service, yet never go out of their way to compliment good service? It's the same thing here .............
Sorry.