Replacing the starter button....

That plastic button could so easily be made on a small lathe from plastic or aluminium if you aren't fussed about the stock look. Circlips are pennies from screw fix or halfrauds. You can work out the stem diameter by using a drill bit in the bore of the switch I guess. Shouldn't be too hard to get a new button made if you know any small engineering works local to you for beer money.
 
Thanks very much for this thread! Helped me work out how to do it. Fitted my Oberon starter button today after the last one went walkies in Matlock Bath!!!! (Not happy at all, some twat had nicked it off the bike whilst i was having lunch - i know this because it was there when i parked up and wasn't when i got back :mad:)

I found I needed;
Torx T55 + T25 to remove handguard
T10 for outer (2) and inner (2) black plastic screws
T7 for inner silver screws (4)

Dead simple;
1. Remove handguard
2. Unscrew 2 x T10 black screws for outer cover
3. Pull in brake lever to wiggle our the back cover
4. Unplug two cables/connectors
5. Remove inner T10 black screws with (don't touch the larger silver one)
6. Now you can remove the switch cluster

7. Remove inner silver screws - 2 at the top, 1 hidden behind left side of silver sticker, and 1 sunken in the middle (this one is slightly longer).
8. Switch cluster can now be pulled apart
9. Fit new button with new circlip
10. re-assemble

Sadly I had no one around to video/photo the process but anyone else doing this should be able to piece these instructions together with Mr K's photos.
 
Four years on but still a useful thread! My starter button broke off somewhere in the dark on Exmoor last week - Oberon can still supply buttons for £20 so seemed simplest option. Followed directions above and all sorted in half an hour :beerjug:
 
Please post a photo of the new button when fitted, I'm thinking of fitting one (purely because they look trick)

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BigDan said:
Thanks very much for this thread! Helped me work out how to do it. Fitted my Oberon starter button today after the last one went walkies in Matlock Bath!!!! (Not happy at all, some twat had nicked it off the bike whilst i was having lunch - i know this because it was there when i parked up and wasn't when i got back :mad:)

I found I needed;
Torx T55 + T25 to remove handguard
T10 for outer (2) and inner (2) black plastic screws
T7 for inner silver screws (4)

Dead simple;
1. Remove handguard
2. Unscrew 2 x T10 black screws for outer cover
3. Pull in brake lever to wiggle our the back cover
4. Unplug two cables/connectors
5. Remove inner T10 black screws with (don't touch the larger silver one)
6. Now you can remove the switch cluster

7. Remove inner silver screws - 2 at the top, 1 hidden behind left side of silver sticker, and 1 sunken in the middle (this one is slightly longer).
8. Switch cluster can now be pulled apart
9. Fit new button with new circlip
10. re-assemble

Sadly I had no one around to video/photo the process but anyone else doing this should be able to piece these instructions together with Mr K's photos.
Click to expand...
I am reviving this thread as I followed these instructions and successfully fitted the Oberon starter button to my 2013 R1200R.

I took some photos to show the label covering one of the screws.



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