Headlight Noise when going over bumps

rayshon · March 18, 2012, 02:34:59 PM

So this has been going on for the last week and has REALLY been bugging me.

When I go over small bumps/big ones too, something in my headlight fairing rattles around. I can sort of replicate it to a quieter extent if I move my headlight fairing up and down, but it's pretty loud when going over a bump and I have NO idea what it is. I'll try to get a video up later if I can.

Any obvious ideas of what it could be before I take it to the dealership/disassemble it myself? Nothing at all seems lose when I look at it.

pliskin · March 19, 2012, 09:05:11 AM

Do me a solid and let me know what you find. Mine is doing the same and driving me crazy. Can't find source of the sound. Sounds like it's in the area of the headlight. Small bumps make it go bumpitty-bump-bump (sounds like a large piece of plastic???). I've been over everything short of taking the faring apart.

pliskin · March 19, 2012, 10:52:13 AM

So I messed around on my bike during lunch hour. I'm not 100% sure but I think the sound is coming from one of my gauges. They are just mounted in a metal frame on rubber bushings. The gauges are held in the (case?) with bushings. I can twist both gauges a little and sure enough the sound is not as loud now. But then again the sound was loud/quiet at random anyway. Either way I'm going to take a closer look when I get home. The more I think about it I think this is the problem on mine. Sounds just like a something shaking around in a plastic cup. The gauge case is shaped like a cup.
Hope this helps

rayshon · March 19, 2012, 06:45:46 PM

Hmm..mine is definately coming from my headlight fairing area, because if I go over a bump while holding my fairing firmly, there is no noise.

Kijona · March 19, 2012, 08:18:34 PM

Check to make sure one of those push-rivet-things hasn't come loose and allowed the plastic to flap around inside there.

rayshon · March 20, 2012, 10:41:54 AM

Well I took it to the dealership and the service guy looked at it and pretty much instantly knew that it was because the whole fairing-stay was loose (I thought it was normal like that).

He tightened it up in a minute, and now the noise is gone!!

pliskin · March 20, 2012, 01:06:25 PM

Nice, now what is the faring-stay. Is that the metal brace/support thingy mounted on the front and holds the fairing up? Was it loose where it mounts to the frame?

rayshon · March 20, 2012, 02:31:49 PM

Quote from: pliskin on March 20, 2012, 01:06:25 PM
Nice, now what is the faring-stay. Is that the metal brace/support thingy mounted on the front and holds the fairing up? Was it loose where it mounts to the frame?

Yeah, exactly that. I could move the whole thing up and down about half an inch because the bolts were loose.

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