shayne

In Australia, the police are able to detect if you have a radar detector. The fines for having a radar detector are very large, larger then most fines. If you have it hidden so they cannot find it, they can impound the vehicle to have it inspected.

Good luck with the swap. How come you didn't just put the RC51 front end back on it?

Has anyone seen

? It's someone showing his installation of an Audiovox cruise control system on his red '04. Is the MCM anything like this? The wiring and some of the fabrication in the video doesn't look as smooth as described for the MCM.

That is not it, that is car system that has been modified to fit I think. The MCM is made to suit your bike specifically. The only issue I had with fitting was the throttle cable. The cable adapter is well made, but tricky to set up I found. Wiring loom was well made.

Ken pretty much summed it up. The R/R will see that your battery voltage is low and pump out higher voltage in order to charge it. As the faulty monitor wire gets worse it will give lower and lower voltages until the R/R is pumping out over 16 volts which will burn up wires, light bulbs, fuses, and your battery (probably not good for things like the PGM-FI either).

If your R/R is putting out more than 15 volts at 5KRPM with the brights on, I would recommend doing this fix. I have so far not seen any 05+ model with this problem. I don’t know if that is because they fixed the wiring problem, or there are simply no bikes with enough miles to yet experience any symptoms. Mine took 20K miles before it had noticeable symptoms.

I have an 06 and there appears to be a few changes in the electrics compared to what I am seeing in this forum. R/R is mounted on the frame up the front of the bike, and the 30amp fuse has the same size cable coming into, and out of it. That is two things I have noticed so far.