Street Glide with vibrating license plate
I had my wife do the same thing...I can't tell from the pic where the foam is at. Is it between the filler and the fender?
Last edited by aviscomi; May 7, 2012 at 09:03 PM.
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Take a look at a 2009. There's a rubber bumper on the plate mount that prevents the plate from rattling against the fender. Far as I know, the bumper would probably work on newer models also. Must have saved millions by eliminating that one part.
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I just checked mine and the rubber is between the fender and bracket but its hanging out a good bit. What do i have to remove to put a new piece of weather stripping in there? It looks like the bracket runs back toward the fender and around to the other side.
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I have a 06 street glide. On my third Kuryakyn curved license plate bracket. The first one was the orignal design it broke. The second one was of new design thought I was all set it also broke and took out the threads in the light bar. Helicoil repair on light bar now used hex bolts instead of button heads and was able to use longer ones also. Instead of using that sponge stick on crap that comes with it I took a piece of 1/4 inch rubber fuel line and attached it with a wire tie problem solved.
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Same here. I stuck some gasket material behind from inside of fender. Time will tell if it will help or even stay in place. --Brainstorming for another solution.
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I have a 2011 Street Glide with 5k miles on it....after about 3k miles the license plate would vibrate louder than the sound of the bike and radio going down the road. I took the bike in for the recall they had for the brake light switch and showed harley what it does. They were clueless like they had never seen it before. Another customer was in there while i was there and said his did the same thing but he never figured out what was causing it he just started tightening every nut and bolt on the back of the bike. Ive done that and everything is tight. BUT the facia that goes between the saddle bags that includes the fender light is loose and there seems to be no way to tighten it up. So anyway Harley supposedly looked at it and said yep we fixed it we put 2 sided tape on it??? Did nothing to help it. I ended up sticking two little pieces of rubber between the fender light and the fender itself and siliconing it from the backside. It helped but now its back to doing it some just not as bad. Its ridiculous to pay 20k for something and have to just deal with a flaw. Anyone ran across this or have any suggestions?
I'd put money on the fact that it's not the license plate but the right side bag mount and the rear fender vibrating. There's a piece of foam in there from the factory but it's not big enough. I used some adhesive backed thicker 1/4"foam and stuck it in there. problem solved.
Pull the right bag and look where the mount goes up behind the fender.
Pull the right bag and look where the mount goes up behind the fender.
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maybe more pic's if you can.
