The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: montmil on December 30, 2009, 01:38:54 PM
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Super glue just ain't doing it for me no mo'.[smiley=furious3.gif]
The black plastic front fender nut covers on the R65s continue to crack with age and/or abuse. You know; the ones that secure the fender to the brace? Looks pitiful with three covers on and one awol.
Today, I was grazing the local Home Depot big box store with a Christmas gift card burning a hole in my pocket. Drifting down the hardware aisle, I spied, with my semi-blind eyes, stainless metric hardware. Lo, there in the drawer were SS metric acorn nuts (2 @ 0.55) that will replace the nylok nuts and plastic covers on both my R65s.
Who knew? Monte
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What greater joy can there be than to wander a hardware store with money to spend. I love those places.
Nice idea Monte.
My 30 year old covers are all still in place but starting to split. I turn em so they dont show too bad for now. I'll keep a look out for nuts though.
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Now just to get them anodized black.
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Permanent black magic marker does an acceptable job, and easy to re-apply when necessary .