Are the indicator/cancel generic?

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As shown in the picture due to the crap design water has got onto the seals, froze and disintegrated. The switch type is also used for the cancel, trip and abs and I was wondering if it's generic to the 1200 or available on other bikes - will make it easier (and cheaper!) to source replacements if so.

Andrew
 

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I would quite like to find these switches as well for another project. I hunted down a link on here to an electronics company but they don't do them in the UK any more. I ended up on a US site that was expensive but again they don't do them any more. Haven't found any more sources as of yet or even anything similar. I cant even find a proper name for them to narrow the search. Hopefully something will come up in this thread.
 
After drying mine out and using WD40 I managed to get them working, but on the left side alone 4 of the 6 switches need new seals...

Naturally new seals aren't available from BMW. That'll be £180 sir.

Feck off I nearly said. :D
 
I had the same problem on my '05 bike in 2007. I had both switches replaced under warranty.

If your warranty has expired this may help : I found this solution on the german GS forum http://www.gs-forum.eu/ so I can't take credit :

First, open the switch (nothing to loose, is there ?) :

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Then, remove the faulty rubber caps :

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The solution is cutting the fingertips from a rubber glove, and fixing it with small tie-wraps :

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This should help you out, at least for a while :augie
 
brilliant :D

maybe with a ton of grease it'll be waterproof as well. :thumb2
 
Before washing the bike I squirt some WD40 behind the switchgear, to avoid water getting in at all. Have been doing so since this problem occurred on previous ('05) bike.
 
GSband said:
Before washing the bike I squirt some WD40 behind the switchgear, to avoid water getting in at all. Have been doing so since this problem occurred on previous ('05) bike.
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This happened to my 05 - I did a couple of posts about it - beware, there is a suspicion that WD40 actually wrecks the rubber seals.

Dielectric grease seems to waterproof the switches very effectively.
 
Worked spot on, all electronics now a-ok. Well shuffed I saved so much money! :beerjug:
 
I've had the same intermittent fault with my LH indicator for a few weeks. After messing about trimming the dust cover and also swapping dust covers around, yesterday I finally decided to dismantle the actual switch with a view that if it was going to need replacing, nothing lost if I destroy it.

Anyway, all fixed and couldn't have been easier! Removed the rubber dust cap, then with a small screwdriver I popped off the button. I then removed the sprung plunger and there's two contacts ... these were clearly grubby and struggling to make a connection. I simply cleaned them up with some fine emery paper and also bent the contacts "in" a little to give a little more contact pressure. All push fit to reassemble and it works perfectly again. No cost, no soldering.

The switch isn't actually sealed so came apart really easily.

Stu.
 

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