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Cruiser
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Raleigh, NC | Seeing as many of you have already painted the silver console (the piece between glove box and gas tank door), I imagine many of you have experienced the glare that it puts on the windscreen.
For those of you that have painted it, did you do it yourself, or did you find a body shop? How did you decide which shade of black? Is there another way to eliminate this problem that doesn't involve painting?
Thanks in advance.
And please post pics if you have them.
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Tourer
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Albuquerque, NM | Powdercoating (black) is fairly cheap. Will at cycle ops has been able to closely match the other colors. |
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Visionary
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San Antonio, TX | I used a rattle can of Black Krylon......looks like it too. |
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Puddle Jumper
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baltimore | body shop gloss black works good |
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Cruiser
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| I purchased the black trim for mine and swapped em out |
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Tourer
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Beer Collins, Colorado (there is no fort) | I did the 3M carbon fiber contact film-looks & wears better than paint. |
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Cruiser
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NE Florida Jacksonville | I got tired of the glare when the sun is overhead. My effort was just to mask off the chrome bezel part and spray the rest with Rust-O-Leum (SP?) Flat Grill paint. Handle the bezel by the chrome and snap it back in place. I mounted my GPS via a RAM ball on top of the dash. It places it at eye level and you can hear the directions.
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Puddle Jumper
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Palm Coast Fl. | I used factory paint (midnight cherry) and had it painted by a body shop along with all the other panels that were silver. |
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Cruiser
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New Brunswick , Canada | 3m carbon fiber contact...works great |
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Cruiser
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| Have never noticed this...hopefully I will not notice tomorrow...lol.
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Cruiser
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Raleigh, NC | Just a note. The glare is not from the instrument cluster, it's from the panel that contains the radio buttons and ignition. And I noticed while riding the other day that it seems to be primary from forward of the ignition. So it's not a very big area that causes it. And of course, it also depends on the position of the windscreen. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | I did a flat black textured rattle can application about 6 months of owning the bike. The killer was when the wife unit would ride and I had to "roll-the-window up". It ain't pretty, but it has done the job for the past 4 years just peachy! |
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Cruiser
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Calgary, AB, | I just re-noticed this yesterday, had noted it only once last year. I'm long upper body so sometimes ride with the screen almost or all the way up. Yesterday while on a 650 KM ride through all weather types I noted the reflection again, when it started raining and I raised the screen (THEN I remembered this effect as it's difficult to see well through the alternating light,dark, light, dark "boxes" . What you see reflected will depend on the height the screen is up, and you eyes' location (ie head height). I get a refelectin across the top 2-2.5 inches, which looks like a series of 4 rectangles. Couldn't figure this out since as I'd move to reach somewhere I'd lose the reflection effect. Finally I accidentally laid my glove across the 3 +1 spare swtiches, just to store it for minute while I sat, and then noticed reflection is gone. So NOW I understood the 4 very wide reflections I was seeing right across the screen are the light/dark alternating reflected colors from between the dark swithes, then light (silver) panel, then the next switch etc. I'll be covering this up with something, at least across this very forward portion of the silver panel near the swtiches. Think I only noticed this once last year after getting the bike in July, but then I was always wearing a full helmet, so generally all the way down in the warmer days. |
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Cruiser
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Raleigh, NC | Thats exactly where my problem is. I put the screen up all way on the highway and it is great to look through except when I get the glare. |
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Cruiser
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Calgary, AB, | Fire, it must be the '08's in Cherry that's causing it LOL I'm considering a taller screen but wondering if anyone with a higher screen installed noticed whether it eliminated this reflection or not? If not, guess it's going to be either paint or somehow cover it. Thougth about a small bag velcro'd JUST in front of th switches, if I couild find something dimensionally good that would just block it, as I'd noticed my black glove doesn't seem to need to fully cover the switches to block the reflection, at least in the light conidtions when I'd tried it. I'd rather not have to paint it, as I like the silver, so ..... |
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