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[Coolbreeze]

Once again, the lens on my front turn signal took a suicide leap.  I rode a week or two ago, and it was just fine.  I go out in the far shop this afternoon after work, and damned thing is laying on the ground with two of the four tabs nowhere to be found.  I think it's the cold weather?  wtf!  This is like the tenth lens that I've put on up front.  (the tabs give up and they just fall off!

So, anyway, I want some decent turn signals up front that won't cost and arm and a leg and have some type of a lens attachment system that doesn't take a dump every other week!  I have the stock turnsignals at this point.  As shown in the picture.  (I have never lost a lens off the rears by the way...) 

Any suggestions on what to replace them with?  I would like plug and play in the same location...good chrome... good light....   bullet proof lens assy... 

and a date with heather locklear in her better days, (although she's not aging badly)....   

okay any combination of four of the above ...

[Capo]

I broke one and until I could pick up a new one I put a dab of clear silicone on it so I wouldn't loose it then just twisted it off when I got the new lense-

[sadunbar]

Once again, the lens on my front turn signal took a suicide leap.  I rode a week or two ago, and it was just fine.  I go out in the far shop this afternoon after work, and damned thing is laying on the ground with two of the four tabs nowhere to be found.  I think it's the cold weather?  wtf!  This is like the tenth lens that I've put on up front.  (the tabs give up and they just fall off!

So, anyway, I want some decent turn signals up front that won't cost and arm and a leg and have some type of a lens attachment system that doesn't take a dump every other week!  I have the stock turnsignals at this point.  As shown in the picture.  (I have never lost a lens off the rears by the way...) 

Any suggestions on what to replace them with?  I would like plug and play in the same location...good chrome... good light....   bullet proof lens assy... 

and a date with heather locklear in her better days, (although she's not aging badly)....   

okay any combination of four of the above ...

I installed these and have not had a problem...

[Coolbreeze]

I installed these and have not had a problem...

who makes those?  They look very nice...    very nice...

[Fired00d]

I installed these and have not had a problem...

I use ones similar w/out any problem...

Bullet Turn Signal Trim Ring Kit


 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

[sadunbar]

who makes those?  They look very nice...    very nice...

They are HD...

[Midnight Rider]

who makes those?  They look very nice...    very nice...

It's a HD part, CB...you can get them in the visor style (what I've got all around on my bike), or the ring style.  Dresses things up a bit, if you like 'em.

[LRebel]

I put the visor-type covers on my front & rear turn signals and have not lost one, yet.

[Twolanerider]

Breeze, if the tabs are breaking as repetitively as you describe I'd have to at least consider something other then a lense problem.  If one housing has been there the entire time while ten lenses have broken what is the one constant?

Perhaps the lamp housing has too heavy of a chrome job or something?  Something to make its ID just enough to put too much pressure on those lens tabs?  Before buying everything to replace both sides might start with just the one housing?

[Coolbreeze]

I was actually in the mode to replace the entire assembly's.  I hadn't thought of just swapping lenses.  (same issue, both sides, but not in back....) 

2lr's right on the money.  The housings also have some corrosion issues inside from holding water...

[Twolanerider]

I was actually in the mode to replace the entire assembly's.  I hadn't thought of just swapping lenses.  (same issue, both sides, but not in back....) 

2lr's right on the money.  The housings also have some corrosion issues inside from holding water...

Breeze, if the housings clean up, or if they're replaced with like stock housings you can do something to help hold out that water intrusion.  We commonly think of water hoses or rain water hitting the bike from the front and thereby getting past the lenses somehow.  It's not as if the lenses are all that robust to look at.

The water that gets inside, however, nearly all comes from the inside of the stem toward the rear.  Look where the wires enter the stems.  That's where the water comes in.  Even worse is that a lot of it gets trapped behind the bulbs because of it.  So corrosion eats the socket themselves and the springs. 

Once your housings are in good shape again coat that area where the wires enter the stem with some silicone.  It's hard to do neatly but no one ever looks there anyway.  Get that sealed and 99.9% of the water problems will go away.  It'll stop eating light bulbs too.

[Eqcons]

I use ones similar w/out any problem...

Bullet Turn Signal Trim Ring Kit


 
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
 

Trouble with these d00d, (which I also use, front and rear) and the similar "peaked" ones is that they let water and grit in at the join, and 1) let the reflectors corrode and 2) they build a collection of gritty mud up between the lens and the chromed plastic.   Terrible design that could be better with just the addition of a thin rubber O-ring....

Jim

[naitram]

you could get those rings at a locla hardaware store

[sadunbar]

I was losing bulbs fairly regularly until I sealed the stems and the caps with some clear silicone sealant.  Have not lost one since doing so...       

[Eqcons]

you could get those rings at a locla hardaware store

That's one of the things I really, really envy you guys for, Nait.  Local hardware stores where you can just drop in find any item you want.  Here in the highlands of Scotland - Heck, even in the big cities in the UK - these places don't exist. 

Jim