Aluminium vs Stainless Steel Bolts

Hi all,

I bought a used SV recently and have noticed that I'm missing a few of the bolts that hold the fairing in place - nothing major, just a couple of the lower ones. I've had a look about and aluminium replacements seem to be quite a bit cheaper than stainless steel ones (£20 vs £30-40), will they do the job or are the heads just going to round off the first time I try to remove them? I'm assuming that they won't be too conspicuous compared to the other (presumably stainless steel) bolts that I currently have? Is there anywhere to buy reasonably priced individual bolts?

Go to a nuts and bolts/industrial supplier get a mixed bag of stainless bolts and nuts


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[tom_e]

You shouldn't be using major torque on the fairing bolts anyway so they shouldn't round off.

[Toooldtodie]

Originally Posted by damienga15de

Go to a nuts and bolts/industrial supplier get a mixed bag of stainless bolts and nuts

+1
Cheapest, most useful by far. You will need the others at some stage no doubt.

[DarrenSV650S]

Where are a couple of fairing bolts selling for £40?!

[maviczap]

Jimmy Choo's chop shop

[yorkie_chris]

Aluminium bolts are fookin pointless. Soft as owt.

get yourself some A4 stainless ones, they're not dear.

[Mickle]

Genuine Suzuki £4:04 each Me, I'm off to the industrial supplier with the other guys!

[Bibio]

i have found ebay to be the cheapest place for ss nuts bolts. or http://www.aruncas.com/acatalog/index.html

[mikerj]

Don't use the crappy aluminium bolts, you only need to look at them wrong and the hex gets rounded off. On something like a fairing that you will be remove occasionally for servicing etc it's a PITA.