wspollack
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I ordered the rear fender/mudguard for my '23 C 400 GT a couple of weeks ago, and it arrived the other day. No particular reason, except that it was cheap, a few other folks here have one already (I think) or have one on order, and seems to me like keeping crud off the underside of the bike is a reasonably good idea.
This is the one I ordered from some AliExpress vendor (courtesy of the link provided by @jokerface in post https://www.bmw-scooters.com/threads/hand-guards.2775/post-27591, in a thread primarily about handguards):
(The price goes up every time I look at it. I think AliExpress uses cookies, among other things, to raise the price of items along with what it thinks is your interest in a type of product. I bought a battery-operated, i.e., self-contained, tire pump that shuts itself off when the specified pressure in reached for $5.49 a month or so ago. If I look at that or similar products now, it's in the $20 range.)
And here's what it looks like in person -- a piece of plastic, a slide-on bolt capture thingy, and a bolt (that's on top of my recycling container, for a nice contrast):
Here are two pics of the area out back where it will reside, first a stock pic and second a sort of test-fit positioning pic:
I have two questions related to its installation:
1) I can see that the convoluted area over on the right, at the front, fits in a depression in the existing plastic. And that a stock screw matches a hole in the new plastic at that spot.
My question on this is, when removing that screw -- the one designated by the orange arrow in my middle picture -- to reinsert it through the new mudguard, will any stock part(s) fall to the ground, or in a black hole, or require curse words to line up again? That is, anyone know if anything is behind that screw (other than maybe a stock screw-holder gizmo, if it's just there to hold two stock pieces of plastic together)?
2) Regarding that new screw-holder clamp thingy, I don't see how it can slide onto anything in the appropriate orientation.
That is, if you look at the mudguard hole in the upper right in the first pic, that will wind up sort of parallel to the ground, when the mudguard is in place (or so it seems to me). I have indicated what I think is that hole's final resting place by the green arrow in the middle pic. If I have that orientation correct, the clamp will have to slide sort of sideways, but the only edge in that area is mostly vertical. Am I supposed to drill a hole in that existing area (that little ramp area by the arrow), and put the clamp in there, or beneath it, or what?
If anyone with this mudguard installed has or can take a photo of that clamp's final positioning back there I'd appreciate it tremendously.
Thanks all.
This is the one I ordered from some AliExpress vendor (courtesy of the link provided by @jokerface in post https://www.bmw-scooters.com/threads/hand-guards.2775/post-27591, in a thread primarily about handguards):
(The price goes up every time I look at it. I think AliExpress uses cookies, among other things, to raise the price of items along with what it thinks is your interest in a type of product. I bought a battery-operated, i.e., self-contained, tire pump that shuts itself off when the specified pressure in reached for $5.49 a month or so ago. If I look at that or similar products now, it's in the $20 range.)
And here's what it looks like in person -- a piece of plastic, a slide-on bolt capture thingy, and a bolt (that's on top of my recycling container, for a nice contrast):
Here are two pics of the area out back where it will reside, first a stock pic and second a sort of test-fit positioning pic:
I have two questions related to its installation:
1) I can see that the convoluted area over on the right, at the front, fits in a depression in the existing plastic. And that a stock screw matches a hole in the new plastic at that spot.
My question on this is, when removing that screw -- the one designated by the orange arrow in my middle picture -- to reinsert it through the new mudguard, will any stock part(s) fall to the ground, or in a black hole, or require curse words to line up again? That is, anyone know if anything is behind that screw (other than maybe a stock screw-holder gizmo, if it's just there to hold two stock pieces of plastic together)?
2) Regarding that new screw-holder clamp thingy, I don't see how it can slide onto anything in the appropriate orientation.
That is, if you look at the mudguard hole in the upper right in the first pic, that will wind up sort of parallel to the ground, when the mudguard is in place (or so it seems to me). I have indicated what I think is that hole's final resting place by the green arrow in the middle pic. If I have that orientation correct, the clamp will have to slide sort of sideways, but the only edge in that area is mostly vertical. Am I supposed to drill a hole in that existing area (that little ramp area by the arrow), and put the clamp in there, or beneath it, or what?
If anyone with this mudguard installed has or can take a photo of that clamp's final positioning back there I'd appreciate it tremendously.
Thanks all.
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