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[Midnight Rider]

First set of heated grips bit the dust last weekend...ain't no way I'm taking the bike to the dealer and letting them screw around with my new handlebars, shock switch, etc, so f'em, I'll just get some heated gloves if I need them.

How many others have 06's and have already had grip problems?  Mine are 9 months old, and only used a little bit since September.

[jeffj]

Terry, I think mine might have bit the dust, also

Last ride they just didn't seem to heat up as well as they use to, so I will have them checked out when it quits snowing


jeffj

[Boatman]

TC, my bike doesn't have the heated grips but it seems like they fail in a relatively short time on the 06/07's from what I've read here.  Mrscvo (I'm sorry if I butchered her name) has an 05 like mine and I think she has had 5-6 of the Harley sets replaced on hers.  I'm in full agreement in not taking it back to the dealer as most don't do the same kind of job we can do.  I just paid $135 out of my pocket (still under warranty) to take the radio out and have the CD changer repaired because I didn't have faith that the tech would do the same as me and also I didn't want the bike sitting around the dealer for 7-14 days partially disassembled and getting scratched etc..  Most people prefer the gerbing gloves as you mentioned. 

[mr_magoo]

TCnBham I added a poll to your thread.

[Twolanerider]

What grips you going to replace them with TC?  Try to match the boards a bit?  Go straight up for looks?  Or go for most comfortable feel?

[mav7266]

TC,

I also have the 06 BCC Cuse. I am on my second set, and they are starting to fade fast. Rode last Thursday, temperature low 40's, grip setting on 6, and you barely could feel the heat. When the bike was new, you could not dial setting over 3 or would burn your hand.
I will leave them on the bike, because as I understand there is no replacement. This sux from the MOCO.

mav7266

[RJ749]

TC,

I also have the 06 BCC Cuse. I am on my second set, and they are starting to fade fast. Rode last Thursday, temperature low 40's, grip setting on 6, and you barely could feel the heat. When the bike was new, you could not dial setting over 3 or would burn your hand.
I will leave them on the bike, because as I understand there is no replacement. This sux from the MOCO.

mav7266

What?  They don't have stock SE replacements, that sorta chaps my a$$.

[Midnight Rider]

What grips you going to replace them with TC?  Try to match the boards a bit?  Go straight up for looks?  Or go for most comfortable feel?

Don,  I'm not unhappy with the looks of the grips that came on the bike, so will probably not mess with them at this point.  It's just not worth the aggravation to change to another set of heated, unless they do something to get them working better and lasting longer.

I wonder if the Beemer/Winger grips go out like this?

[mr_magoo]

So they don't have replacement heated grips,  How is HD going to comp the people that have them and they fail.  The P&A catolog says not for internally wired bars, yet they installed them.  They don't listen to them selves.

[RJ749]

So they don't have replacement heated grips,  How is HD going to comp the people that have them and they fail.  The P&A catolog says not for internally wired bars, yet they installed them.  They don't listen to them selves.

How can that surprise us Magoo?  Unbelievable to not have a fix/replacement for an OEM delivered CVO "Custom" application.  But after the paint fiasco how could anyone be surprised.

[Ironhorse]

I had a set of HotGrips. They kicked butt, yet looked plain. Then HD came out with their own heated grips. I pulled off the HotGrips and installed the fancy looking HD grips. They failed a short time later. So I replaced them with another set of HD heated grips. Those failed a short time later too. I yanked those off and reinstalled the HotGrips. Man those work great I NEVER should have taken the HotGrips off in the first place.

Mark

[Chief]

To look at the other side, does anyone have a set of HD heated grips that works great? I mean, someone who uses them all the time and loves them. I too think mine were hotter when the bike was brand new, and now with a whopping 600 miles on the clock, think they've cooled off a good bit.

All I've heard is bad, but has anyone had good luck with them?

Chief

[Midnight Rider]

To look at the other side, does anyone have a set of HD heated grips that works great? I mean, someone who uses them all the time and loves them. I too think mine were hotter when the bike was brand new, and now with a whopping 600 miles on the clock, think they've cooled off a good bit.

All I've heard is bad, but has anyone had good luck with them?

Chief

Chief...hope somebody pipes up here and says they have worked great for the past year, but I kinda' doubt it.  If I added up actual hours of use on my grips before failure, I would say it would be at most 80-100 hours of on-time.  That's really not much, when I've put 10K on the bike since June.

Unfortunately, it's just a matter of when they're going to fail, not if.  I don't understand why they can't make a set that works.  I've had mine off the bike, unwired, laying on the table. The things have silicone sealer all on the inside of the ends. It's just not that complicated and I don't think the problem is with the wiring inside the bars, but most likely with the rheostat or whatever they have stuck in the end of the left one. 

[Twolanerider]

Don,  I'm not unhappy with the looks of the grips that came on the bike, so will probably not mess with them at this point.  It's just not worth the aggravation to change to another set of heated, unless they do something to get them working better and lasting longer.

I wonder if the Beemer/Winger grips go out like this?

That's something you'd do different than I would Terry.  I'm the first to admit I prefer simple approaches and if it's not broke or needing service I've got no desire to do anthing with it.  But it'd bug me leaving a failed electrcial component in place that has the service history these things do.  With the reports we've already read of several cases of riders feeling electrical shocks as a result of those parts along with the other more generic failures leaving them on the bike and dead or ailing would worry me. 

Seeing the little thermostat out on the end of the grip might be enough of an annoying reminder to me to spur me toward completely ripping them off the bike.  But short of that I'd at least kill power to them.

[Midnight Rider]

That's something you'd do different than I would Terry.  I'm the first to admit I prefer simple approaches and if it's not broke or needing service I've got no desire to do anthing with it.  But it'd bug me leaving a failed electrcial component in place that has the service history these things do.  With the reports we've already read of several cases of riders feeling electrical shocks as a result of those parts along with the other more generic failures leaving them on the bike and dead or ailing would worry me. 

Seeing the little thermostat out on the end of the grip might be enough of an annoying reminder to me to spur me toward completely ripping them off the bike.  But short of that I'd at least kill power to them.

You know me...I say that now, but it'll get on my nerves before it's over with.  I'll keep 'em on for a little while and see if HD can come out with something that actually WORKS, but my A/R will kick in sooner than later....