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[Twolanerider]

Well Don, Reading that a few times, I had to chuckle. Dakota gauges are another manufacturer's product. lol

Agreed that the Dakota gauges look good. It's the repeated failure with the OE gauges that is the problem. It is those that would keep me from spending more money on the same bike as opposed to stashing that change for the next ride.

[Phantom309]

I really like the look of digital and I'd love to do the blue ones for mine. However, I'm tired of turning my vehicles into money pits so $1000.00+ is out of the ? for me. Guess I'm fortunate mine isn't showing any signs of leaking/streaking ... yet. Mine doesn't see much water, even from a hose too often and when it does I carefully use a fine mist. A few downpours I did get caught in they still look like day one so I must be lucky.

If/when mine start to streak, I have no doubt I'll be pulling some back-alley homemade fix even if I break it trying .... just my nature. Whether it's a tedious effort with a screwdriver or my dremel, some polish to clean the lens and rtv or glue or both to button it back up .... that's my plan. If that fails there's always the "Oh ****" as it sails across the garage because I have to buy a new one.

[grc]

I really like the look of digital and I'd love to do the blue ones for mine. However, I'm tired of turning my vehicles into money pits so $1000.00+ is out of the ? for me. Guess I'm fortunate mine isn't showing any signs of leaking/streaking ... yet. Mine doesn't see much water, even from a hose too often and when it does I carefully use a fine mist. A few downpours I did get caught in they still look like day one so I must be lucky.

If/when mine start to streak, I have no doubt I'll be pulling some back-alley homemade fix even if I break it trying .... just my nature. Whether it's a tedious effort with a screwdriver or my dremel, some polish to clean the lens and rtv or glue or both to button it back up .... that's my plan. If that fails there's always the "Oh ****" as it sails across the garage because I have to buy a new one.

My usual method as well (for many things), especially after someone tells me it can't be done.   I haven't seen one of the new clusters out of the bike, but if they just used a few plastic spot welds instead of a continuous bond all around, it shouldn't be that hard to grind down the welds just enough to break the lens free.  The trick will be reattaching the lens, but with the many choices of adhesives we have these days I'm sure one could be found to do the job.  And like you said, if you break it you buy a new one, which you would have had to do anyway if you hadn't tried to fix it.

Jerry