I picked up a spotless GS500F last week. Rides like a dream, only had 1999 miles on it when I bought it.
Arrive this morning, I'm taking the thing off the center stand in my garage and half-drop it. I didn't let it lie down completely; I was using all my strength kind of half-hold it off the ground. But it gets low enough that the right mirror snaps off.
Somehow I managed to get one leg over the other side, then the other leg, and wrench the thing up with all my might. *IDIOT*
Now the right mirror is no problem to replace, but I noticed that the front right blinker has been punched into the fairing, still attached, but the fairing is cracked partway around it.
What method would be recommended to fix this? It's honestly barely noticeable, so I'm thinking some kind of superglue would be fine, no one would ever notice the difference.
Punching the turn signal through is a very common thing with these it seems. I've done it once myself when putting my foot down in some gravel at a stop sign. It's pretty easy to repair. Took me about an hour of work and 2 hours of dry time for the plastic weld. I pulled the side fairings off by taking off about 12 allen head screws and the 2 body clips (the 2nd is on the bottm of the fairing, don't try to pull the fairings apart without getting that one or you risk breaking it.) Then took my time and removed my front nose fairing. You have to unplug the leads from both turn signals, which is easy and unplug the connectors for the headlight at the headlight housing. You'll need remove that turn signal from the fairing in most cases before proceeding from here. Put the fairing on a clean surface, lightly sanded the cracked areas (from the backside of the fairing) with some medium grain sand paper. Applied the plastic weld with the cracked parts pushed together and let it dry for about 2 hours before putting all the fairings back on. JB Plastic weld is super strong and if you line your cracks up properly when applying, you can often times barely notice the cracks from the outside. It's not A-1 perfect, but it is a quick and good fix that doesn't require any painting so long as you can live with the cracks being noticeable in some light. Other people have said they have put on flush mount after market turn signals and that was able to cover the cracks, but I kind of like the big bulky OEM ones as flush mount seem like they would be harder to see for other drivers. So overall, my repair only cost me about 1 hour of work and about 3 bucks for a syringe of JB Plastic Weld. good luck man.
Thin cyano (superglue such as 'Zap' or 'Hot stuff') can be used to wick into the cracks, after carefully aligning things, but watch out, if you're not careful it can 'run' everywhere.
If you want to do it properly, after cyano, use a patch of fibreglass mat or cloth laid up inside the fairing, wetted out with EPOXY resin (not polyester).