Installation didn't go as smoothly as I had hoped, but it did not go horribly wrong either. It's really not that difficult, but there are a few steps that weren't as easy as the video showed. The guy in the video has done it a 100 times, the average joe buying one of these has NEVER done it.
The problem started when I took the seat off. In the video his bike has wires neatly right there on top, ready to be manipulated. Mine were buried in the side of the bike with a big black thick wrapped wire going across the top of the whole mess coming from a second smaller fuse stuck on a post that had to be removed. There is no mention of that fuse in the video. That fuse fought me to come off that post but eventually I got it off. I also was not able to wrap the wires back as neatly as this guy did because of that 2nd fuse I had to take off thus it screwed up the length of my wires so I just basically folded everything into a glob of wires and tried to put that plastic thing back on. That didn't go well as its not designed to go around the now much thicker glob of wires that you're trying to shove into it. I finally got it somewhat ok and shoved it back on the side of the bike where it came from.
Fast forward. Taking that rear fender apart was a bit*h. Those screws were so tight I could hardly break them loose. The phillips were the worst as they tried to strip immediately. He made one mention in the video, "These might be a little tight." Oh, buddy, believe me, there was no "might be a little tight" about it. Those things were rammed on with an impact wrench.
Making that "washer stack" line up right took a whole lot longer in real life than it did in the video. At least for me.
That being said, it was well worth it. I can't believe Yamaha actually put that fender on their bike, what were they thinking?
The problem started when I took the seat off. In the video his bike has wires neatly right there on top, ready to be manipulated. Mine were buried in the side of the bike with a big black thick wrapped wire going across the top of the whole mess coming from a second smaller fuse stuck on a post that had to be removed. There is no mention of that fuse in the video. That fuse fought me to come off that post but eventually I got it off. I also was not able to wrap the wires back as neatly as this guy did because of that 2nd fuse I had to take off thus it screwed up the length of my wires so I just basically folded everything into a glob of wires and tried to put that plastic thing back on. That didn't go well as its not designed to go around the now much thicker glob of wires that you're trying to shove into it. I finally got it somewhat ok and shoved it back on the side of the bike where it came from.
Fast forward. Taking that rear fender apart was a bit*h. Those screws were so tight I could hardly break them loose. The phillips were the worst as they tried to strip immediately. He made one mention in the video, "These might be a little tight." Oh, buddy, believe me, there was no "might be a little tight" about it. Those things were rammed on with an impact wrench.
Making that "washer stack" line up right took a whole lot longer in real life than it did in the video. At least for me.
That being said, it was well worth it. I can't believe Yamaha actually put that fender on their bike, what were they thinking?