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[JONNIEROCK]

        A friend of mine has a 2012 CVO Road Glide and it looks like all the engine fasteners are starting to get some type of corrosion on them. The rocker box bolts, primary, transmission top cover, lifter block bolts, etc.  It looks like a white fuzzy material around the bolts if that makes any sense to you. Does anyone else have that problem, and if so, what did you do about it, or what can be done ?
               Thanks in advance Jonnierock

[Fired00d]

Where does your friend live (near salt water)... where does he store his bike (in a garage w/fertilizer, pool chemicals)? Could be other factors causing this not an overall model/bike problem.

 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[JONNIEROCK]

        Wisconsin. Same area as mine are kept, and I have no corrosion. Kept in a clean unheated garage, with no chemicals, and pretty much doesn't take it out until the roads have been washed off with a couple of good rain falls

[Pete7539]

Could be the no heat garage. Mine started looking like that. Cold storage, cold oil, warms up a bit during day and engine would sweat. Looked like bathroom mirror after hot shower. Tried a few different things and finally a block heater stopped it from sweating.

[dartman]

I live in Michigan, learned years ago that you cant store a bike on bare cement, every time temperature changes aluminum gets condensation all over it, you have to park on a decent vapor barrier, I store my bikes in 2 different storage buildings, in the pole barn I use a Stable mat and in the unheated garage a tarp with a 4x8 sheet of plywood over it, I almost ruined a brand new 70 Triumph Bonneville leaving it on cement, cases and bolts all corroded just like your buddies machine.

[ltank]

I have seen bad stator wires shorted a cause ACV ripple on the DC charging the  battery. Mine was intermittant when it put alot of ac to chasis bike electronic speedo and tack  went nuts causing motor to sputter/die, horn to blow.  Normally the dcv is solid smooth dc that would vary as RPM varies when it  crapped I saw as much as 6 vac on the  battery. Its an easy check. I manually took evry wire off the bike and inspected wires removing them from the connectors and sheathing.
very time consuming but it was my Bike and being a Robotics Master Cert. I refuse to pay someone else to trouble shoot any electrical or electronics of anything I own! Checking the batttery for acv is far easier than what I did before findingthe fault.