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I was getting a spare bike key made at a locksmith and checking the new keys in each lock when I realized my left bag lock wasn’t working
very well, it was sluggish and rubbery. I looked underneath at the latch and realized that one latch screw was missing, and the other was loose.

This has all been said before in other posts, but when I ran into this problem on my bike, I read other posts and put it all together in one place.
I also put it in a PDF so pictures won't ever go away. It's stored on my Google Drive account, so as long as Google nor I die, we're good for awhile.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B56gUa ... sp=sharing

Yep, happened to me within 1wk of picking up my new '13. Took it back, had them fix it with thread locker, per my suggestion. Yamaha needs to give dealerships strong warnings of skipping this step, and make them pay for any replacements related to not using thread locker on them.

Don't know why Mama doesn't provide screws with pre applied loctite from the factory. Surely they must know about this issue after so many years of fjr service.

NTXFJR wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:43 am Don't know why Mama doesn't provide screws with pre applied loctite from the factory. Surely they must know about this issue after so many years of fjr service.

File that question under other mystifying things like: single color choice, PDP, why spiders, etc.

At least they keep on making them...and I keep on a buying them.