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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner => Topic started by: RedRag on 18 January 2012, 07:58:54 pm

Title: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: RedRag on 18 January 2012, 07:58:54 pm

Hi all
Just move up from an FZR600 to an 09 plate FZ1-SA. :lol Loving it big time - even after a very cold collection ride from London to Tamworth to London on a very cold and frosty Saturday morning. Question is, the bike has original Yam hard panniers and fixings with the indicators wired in line with the number plate. However, I cannot work out why there is no provision to light the number plate. The main tail light does not have a white/clear down facing section (and is too far away)and the additional brake light further back is just that - a brake light. Is it me?

Title: Re: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: pitternator on 23 January 2012, 08:43:02 am

try a pm to DekF.. he i sthe gen2 guru , and an electrician

Title: Re: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: locksmith on 23 January 2012, 06:53:40 pm

Just guessing that the original rear fender with the number plate light on has been removed ?

Title: Re: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: RedRag on 30 January 2012, 11:49:47 pm

I think the rear lighting system is all original - but have not come across too many OEM hard luggage kits yet to compare

Title: Re: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: chaparral02 on 01 February 2012, 11:12:18 pm

The number plate is on the rear fender (Black mud guard)

You can see the number plate light sticking out between the indicators in this picture
(http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d9/chaparral02/2008_0502Boxes0081.jpg)

Title: Re: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: chaparral02 on 01 February 2012, 11:17:21 pm

I think what happened on your bike is someone has changed the number plate light to an extra red tail light....To be seen better with the panniers fitted..

Title: Re: FZ1-SA tail light numberplate illumination
Post by: RedRag on 03 February 2012, 06:45:35 pm

Thanks for the replies and picture which helps a lot.
It looks like they have replaced the tail light you have to be a 2nd stop light which really works well - however, this means that the bike no longer has a number plate light. This mystifies me on 2 counts - I am fairly sure that the the hard luggage rack system is Yamaha's own ( the hard luggage certainly is), the bike was MOT'd by the main dealer just before I collected it (she's just under 3 years old so it would be the first MOT).
 I don't know but shouldn't this be part of the MOT check?