Interesting..most riders don't have the luxury of taking off the dash or dissembling the switch housing. The gray connector disconnection is well known to us in the family. Brian has created a harness to make this a bit easier to accomplish.
http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=6976.0There may be a couple of issues with this mechanism...dirt and inadequate internals. I've had it happen to me twice...relatively early on. Beating on it and swearing worked both times. After that I've tried to keep it clean by blowing it out through the top of the switch every now and then when I remember to do it. So far it hasn't reoccurred. I do carry a small hammer but I haven't had to use it. I think that the threat is enough.
We've had one owner (whose name cannot be mentioned) who had it so bad he sold the bike and bought an FJR
. I believe that he did have it looked at by a dealer who did something to it...I think before he got rid of it. This seems like the issue the guy in the video had. It's either very intermittent or when it goes it really goes.
This issue is not as endemic as it appears on forums, otherwise we'd be inundated with reports on this issue.. I have the extended warranty and if it happened to me again, I'd just take it in and get it taken care of through the dealer. And that's really what we should do. Trying to fix it ourselves and not letting Kwackers know about it helps no one.