On both of the accessories, I don't see any way to disconnect the wire near the bag? It looks like in both cases, the wire runs from the bag all the way to either the accessory plug, or the rear fender harness.
Am I missing something? How do you remove the bags?
Chief
Chief, assuming the products haven't been redesigned since I installed mine your descriptions are half right.
My spoilers came with harnesses that did have disconnects that would hang just inboard of the saddlebags (generally between the saddlebag and strut). The few other sets of these I've helped other put on all were supplied the same way. The last ones I did, however, were about 8 months ago. So of course the harness design could have been altered. The product was supplied with a harness on the lights, complete with terminated ends, that went through the bag. You'd then just slide on the plastic terminal housing. That connector than mated to its other half that was part of the intermediate harness you plugged in to the bike.
The saddlebag latches, however, were not supplied the same way. At least when I did mine a year or so ago they weren't. They were supplied with one long harness that went all the way from the light/latch itself to the mating point under the seat. No easily accessible disconnect beside the saddlebag.
I just got another set of the connectors and terminals like those used with the spoilers. Cut the harness just inboard of the saddlebag (same area as the spoiler connectors were) and made a quick disconnect there. So both the lighted latches and the spoilers have disconnects right next to each other. Since they were the same plug I just made sure the m/f was swapped between the two so each could only plug in to it's own connector.
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