Hello fellow brickriders!
Last week I bought a K75 RT. Build in 1991 and 134.500 km driven. It's my second bike since I got my license two years ago. My previous bike was a Yamaha FJ600 from 1990. I must say this BMW is a MAJOR upgrade :yes
I've done some small maintenance jobs already and I want to share some stuff with you people.
Today I went to my local BMW dealer and bought the oval plastic rings for the windscreen. There are eight of them in the windscreen and they had all disformed on my bike.
Before
After
I also wanted to replace the gasket of the fuelcap, because it was in a very bad state. So the dealer searched in the computer for the partnumber and said: "Hmm, that's too bad. They are out of production." For the kit that is btw. But then he found one last gasket kit on the shelve. The very last one :eek:
So I was very lucky and replaced the main (foam) gasket, two blue gasket rings, a metal ring and another rubber ring. Really easy job. This video on youtube helped me a lot!
Total costs 20 euro (about 15 dollar?). 14 for the kit, 6 for the windscreen rings.
Look at that gasket! It's made of some kind of foam, which doesn't last forever.
After. Nice :yes
I've also tried to clean the windscreen. It is all yellow and faded. I bought Turtle Wax Headlight Restorer and gave it a try. Well, at least the surface of the screen has become very smooth, but it's still very hard to look through. Too bad. Since I had the stuff, I also cleaned the headlight. Which helped! Nice.
Screen after the Turtle Wax Headlight Restorer treatment. No big difference.
Bye for now!