Hello, I recently bought a 2002 GS500 and am enjoying riding it. However, I just noticed that I somehow lost the little plastic piece that goes over the oil warning lamp on the console. I'm pretty sure it was red? Since the rainy season started, this is obviously bad as it would let water right onto the bulb. I've taped on some random plastic bit for now. I'm wondering where do people order small parts from? Thanks for any information.

Bertman

Ooo, I think those things are basically impossible to get. You could go to your local motorcycle salvage yard and see if they had one for you...

Oh yea, harder to find than an honest CEO ...
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Buddha.

 

I guess I'll have to find a similar thickness red plastic and grind it to size. Thanks.

Bertman

weird this my day that i did everything everyone else is doing.. lost mine 2 days ago ... it flew off on the highway and hit my helmet. didn't know what it was till i stoped and saw the light missing

Quote from: fred on September 25, 2008, 11:50:35 AM
Ooo, I think those things are basically impossible to get. You could go to your local motorcycle salvage yard and see if they had one for you...

how do you go about searching for one of these salvage yard? i've tried internet searches for the new england area but found nothing. Is it like a "pull your own parts" place? or you just tell them what you want

Quote from: psyber_0ptix on September 25, 2008, 02:34:18 PM

Quote from: fred on September 25, 2008, 11:50:35 AM
Ooo, I think those things are basically impossible to get. You could go to your local motorcycle salvage yard and see if they had one for you...

how do you go about searching for one of these salvage yard? i've tried internet searches for the new england area but found nothing. Is it like a "pull your own parts" place? or you just tell them what you want

LA has a sweet salvage yard that just disassembles bikes and tosses the parts they think they can sell into model specific bins so if you go in and ask for something like the left switch cluster for  a GS, they just point you to a box full of them and you can dig through and take the one you like. It is pretty cool and if they have what I'm looking for, pretty fast. They don't always sort small things though, so if you want a specific bolt, you have to go through a huge box of random bolts to find it... A salvage would probably just leave the whole dashboard together, so you could probably find one to pop the lens you want out of... It is worth a shot...