Has any one in the USA had there dealer contact them about the projector head lamps on the 09 melting holes in the fering's below the lights? Mine did here in Australia, I said "no I don't have any melting in mine" but when I got home and had a close look sure enough there was 4 small melted spots. Yamaha is replacing it and fixing the lights, I was just wondering if it was the same over there.
huh?? are they recalling all bikes or just going to fix the ones that hit them up about it?
i've done 10K kms on my 09 R1 and wash my bike regularly so i usually notice anything that's wrong... hopefully not something i need to worry about
but thanks for the heads up i'll keep an eye on it
I didn't notice on mine my dealer just told me to look, he said that Yamaha told him to fix them at the next service. He is a friend of mine so I don't know if they are telling every one yet.
Post up some pictures of your damage. Sounds like it could be an expensive fix for Yamaha if a full recall is issued. There may be a service bulletin out on it.
I've seen the word "fairing" mis-spelled as ferring or fering on all sorts of messageboards and I'm just curious, are people really mis-spelling it or am I wrong and it's simply spelled differently in other countries.
Like in the US we spell it "color", and often times I see it spelled "colour" in other countries.
No I think it gets melted by the sun being focused through the head lamp, like a magnifing glass. I'm not too sure what they do to fix it but i think it is something like a sticker that go's on the under side of the head lamp to block the light from focusing.
Did you get an official recall letter or you just found it by chance?
I have the matt black 09 R1 and while i cover it sometimes its been hot this summer so far, so i will be paranoid about this now
My bike has 950km on it and I can already see melting spots on the black housing of the lamp and the fairing below it. The housing and fairing is melted both sides.
I might have to raise this issue with the dealer when I bring it in for its first service.
yep just checked mine an it has melted marks but only on the left hand side..
very slightly on the RHS... hmmm
don't what yamaha can do though to sort the problem out...
Mine has a small cigarette like burn under the right head light (on the plastic intake piece) and the small painted strip of the cowling directly below both lights looks like it's had some heat.
i just checked mine.. and it has scratch like / melting marks under the lights... mhhh.. idk.. kinda looks melted.. kinda looks like rock chip?? but right under the light no where else.
Funny you bring this up. I have this exact problem on my 09. Took it to the dealer and they blamed it on me for puttin flush mounts in. But if u pay attn you dont get any where close to that for flush mounts...any ideas??
Yeh, it's one of those things that's going to happen eventually. One day you'll park the bike in a certain position to the sun and it's going to melt the plastic. You'll probably never notice it when it does happen unless you check it every time you stop. Anyway, I hope Yamaha finds a fix for it before it damages more bikes. I think all they have to do is put a reflective strip under the headlight. And I hope they check the fix first to make sure that it doesn't reflect on something else and cause another problem.
I have it to now that some has pointed it out, were I did work they have a 2010 R1 on the floor and if you look at the bottom of the headlamps there is like a frost on the bottom of both lights, you have to see it for your self so maybe they are aware of it now and thats there fix, check it out and when I saw that I asked myself but now I think I know why.
The 2010's have been in production for awhile. If this is a recent issue then the 2010's will have the same problem.
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