Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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Hello everyone. I’m new to this forum and I am glad I found it!

I am trying yo remove the headlight as I want to upgrade to LED bulbs. I know it is possible to do this without remove of the headlight assembly, but could not do it.

Can someone please help me understand how to remove the top fairings? There’s a screw on the top fairing next to the mirror that I can not remove without breaking it. Are there any tricks?


Thank you for any advice
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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Take a look for the headlight here, it may help
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thank you for the information, this will help with the removal of the light.

Could you please send the link to the information on removing the top fairing panel? I can not open it from the link you sent.

Thanks again
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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That is all I have I'm afraid.
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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There’s a video I believe for stripping the fairing, I’ll try and find it tomorrow
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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This video will show you show to remove all of the body panels. I’m not sure if the panel/screw you need to remove is covered in the video.
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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Thanks for the video, it will come useful when attempting to service the bike in the near future.

It did not show how to remove the top panel which is the one needed to remove the headlight assembly. I appreciate your feedback.
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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These may help though I can't find the video and can only assume it' been taken down. These older posts refers to similar problems -

https://www.bmwlt.com/threads/front-fai ... ll.192909/

viewtopic.php?t=3045&sid=9dd96033f23c7f ... &start=15f





... and here's a link to the list of Boxflyer videos covering other maintenance tasks.

https://www.youtube.com/@Boxflyer11/videos
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Re: Removal of top front fairings and headlight

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Thank you for the information. I was able to take out the panel as it was held by a plastic pull out pin. Easy.

Thank you for the help, now all I have to do is put it back together the same way it came...... :shock:
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