Lower front fender (mudguard?) differences?

[pojoel]

Does anybody know if the lower front fender (correct term?) on the 1200GS changed through the years, or if they are freely interchangeable between 2004 - 2012?

The previous owner of Piroska fitted a Pyramid fender extender (I think), which I yesterday found out not only is screwed but also glued in place.
So there I was, with my brand new MachineArt, luverly and quirky, extender in hand, feeling like an idiot...

I'm thinking of trying my luck on ebay to find another, undamaged fender, but I don't know how compatible they are. Anyone?

 

[MIKE R]

Same part number for all the 1200GSes, so yes.

You might find this site useful for such questions:-

http://www.maxbmwmotorcycles.com/fiche/PartsFiche.aspx

Hope this helps

Mike

 

[pojoel]

Great link, now very bookmarked!

 

[Bear]

If it's this part your fitting http://www.nippynormans.com/product...fender-extender-r1200gsadv-all-years-mam-av12 then it will cover the holes made by drilling for the Pyramid extender. I replaced a Pyramid extender with one of these and you can't see where the Pyramid was. It's also a much better product.

 

[Bendy toy]

The standard mudguard is made from polypropylene so any glue used on the pyramid extender will be a mastic of some sort (probably polyurethane or silicone). Slice through it with a small sliding/snap blade knife and peel the residue off the polyprop. Then use something similar to fit the new extender.

You could also try a "cheese wire" as used by windscreen fitters.

 

[pojoel]

Good tips from both of you, but sometimes I'm too fast for my own good. Especially when it comes to solutions costing money...

I've already bought a newsed one from ze German ebay for zerteefive Euro, incl shipping.

Anyone here in need of a fender with a Pyramid goatee?

On second thought, forget that. I bet that postage from Sweden is ridiculously high. Not worth it.

(OT postage anecdote: I bought a lot of stuff from Nippy Norman; that Givi 330, the Mudsling Max combo, K&N airfilter and some other bits and pieces. Four parcels arrived, but NN had forgot to pack the K&N. When I contacted him, he told me he'd fix that asap. And all my chins hit the ground when I looked in my mailbox the other day, to find a parcel from NN, SENT BY AIRMAIL! And the fee he'd payed was £4.59 (or .95)!?! Cheezus... I'm not able to send that parcel by snailmail to an adress in my own village for that kind of money...)

 

[Bendy toy]

I got a carbon fibre fender extender from a guy in Spain via eBay. £19 delivered. It looks great and fitted fine with one pack windscreen mastic. It will probably be broken if I ever do any off roading but will any hard extender fare any better?