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15-01-08, 09:13 PM | #1 |
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SV650S curvy headlight mod
Hi all - newbie question (means you've probably answered it a thousand times, but I am too stupid to find it..).
I have a K3 curvy, fully faired with dual headlight. On low beam only one side lights - can I modify this (without blowing relays etc) so that both sides come on when on low as well as high? If it can be done and I will soon (hopefully) be the proud owner of a K8 (tried all the 600/650's but the SV gives the best smiles per rev) - can these be modified also? |
15-01-08, 09:22 PM | #2 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
K3 was pointy, yours is probably a late sale K2? I thought all the UK ones lit both sides... But I could be wrong.
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15-01-08, 09:27 PM | #3 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
Hi, Told you I was stupid.... says K3 on reg doc or is that something else?
Mine definitely only lights one side, to be truthful I haven't had the bulbs out to check as my last bike was the same so I assumed it only worked on the one side. Will check tomorrow, if it doesn't 'p' down as much. Cheers |
15-01-08, 09:30 PM | #4 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
Looks like a curvy to me mate
No idea what your reg docs on about. Possibly just a blown bulb, but if one half of the lens is flat and clear, different to the other side then you've got a Euro light. (UK SV uses H4 bulbs, which have a filament for full and one for low, so you could just have lost one filament)
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15-01-08, 09:39 PM | #5 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
I would agree - its definitely a curvy
Reg early '03 - just dug out handbook and it is a K2 - not that I should doubt the experts here.... Will delve into the innards and check out the spec. Just noticed the bike originally came from DK in N.U.L - wern't they big on grey imports once upon a time? Could be a euro spec bike? |
15-01-08, 09:41 PM | #6 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
Well look at the headlight, if one side is clear with a projector lens behind it then its an import, if they're both normal reflector lenses then its UK
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15-01-08, 09:44 PM | #7 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
Thanks, will do.
With the K3 onwards, are they similar or do they have a different headlight arrangement? |
15-01-08, 09:49 PM | #8 |
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Your's is pretty much certainly curvy.
I doubt anything is interchangeable from the pointy except the bulbs, both H4 on UK curvy and pointy iirc, as for euro ones I have no idea.
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18-01-08, 12:01 PM | #10 |
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Re: SV650S curvy headlight mod
Cheers all - this is a little weird....
I have now put 2 complete new bulbs in and the right side works on dip and the left side on main???? It looks to be right as only 2 wires go to each connector - H4 connectors can be got at a motorworld/Halfords? Couple of quick scotch locks and job done eh? |
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