muppix
Registered user
Hi All,
Having recently purchased a Stebel Magnum and found out, along with everybody else, that you either need to cut off the BMW plug and fit spade connectors or butcher the original horn in order to reclaim a useable plug, I thought that there surely must be a better solution.
I'm not about to cut off the BMW plug for two reasons; firstly I just paid rather a lot of money for the bike and am not about to start butchering it, and secondly, I've worked as an electrical engineer in the past and the OEM connectors strike me as an infinitely better solution that even the best spade / bullet crimps found on other bikes. They're waterproof and you can't accidentally reverse the polarity, which is impotant to me on a bike.
It strikes me that the ideal solution therefore is to source some of these connectors and, if a minimum order quantity is required, pool together as a group. Having seen the demand for such a part I certainly don't mind providing the initial outlay, and sales & distribution would could be done via eBay.
The only problem is that I can't find them anywhere. RS Components don't seem to have them (following a very lengthy search), so I was wondering if somebody here knows more about them, like a part number, manufacturer etc.
Many thanks in advance!
Mup.
Having recently purchased a Stebel Magnum and found out, along with everybody else, that you either need to cut off the BMW plug and fit spade connectors or butcher the original horn in order to reclaim a useable plug, I thought that there surely must be a better solution.
I'm not about to cut off the BMW plug for two reasons; firstly I just paid rather a lot of money for the bike and am not about to start butchering it, and secondly, I've worked as an electrical engineer in the past and the OEM connectors strike me as an infinitely better solution that even the best spade / bullet crimps found on other bikes. They're waterproof and you can't accidentally reverse the polarity, which is impotant to me on a bike.
It strikes me that the ideal solution therefore is to source some of these connectors and, if a minimum order quantity is required, pool together as a group. Having seen the demand for such a part I certainly don't mind providing the initial outlay, and sales & distribution would could be done via eBay.
The only problem is that I can't find them anywhere. RS Components don't seem to have them (following a very lengthy search), so I was wondering if somebody here knows more about them, like a part number, manufacturer etc.
Many thanks in advance!
Mup.
However, if you get a friendly parts/service person at a BMW dealer and go when it's quiet it's usually worth the trawl through zillions of fiches. But TBH, it's better doing a good search on here, AdvRider, r1200gs.info and similar places (I know you've an 1150, but you get the drift) as well as google.
