Having recently bought my first zed, I'm in the process of sorting some of its' existing issues, faults and foibles.
Further down the list was my intention to get the nasty broken 3rd brake light sorted.
So it was off to the stealers yesterday to pick up an original replacement unit which has exactly the same design flaws as the broken one, i.e. made of brittle plastic and a poor fitment interface relative to boot operation.
i.e. the combination of poor quality plastics and the action of closing ones boot will, over time lead to eventual failure, thus completing the component life-cycle.
Reading a few posts indicates to not tighten the 3 fixing nuts as hard as factory setting but to fingertight until the unit is JUST secure enough. I think I read somewhere that weaker upgrade springs are available but my local stealer, Ekris Utrecht didn't know anything about this unsurprisingly.
To augment the risk mitigation against failure from slamming forces I've wrapped the internal 'horizontal' faces in ribbed electrical tape, minimizing hard material contact under slam load (shutting the boot).
It's akin to something basic we do in design engineering where failure mitigation is compensated by vibration/ accelerative load force damping. I've lathered the whole of the internal computer housings in the Eurofighter Typhoon with sorbothane and other load-absorbing high-density composites - luckily there hasn't been a failure yet....
i dont have 3mm sorbothane sheet to hand and i don't think there's enough clearance anyway - so good old electrical tape will have to do! Maybe this will help others with a similar problem/requirement.
Will post update in a few months...or at least a few times where my good ladyfriend Laura has forgot/ignored my repeated polite requests to shut the boot lightly. Something she's done many times previously is slammed the boot so hard its resulted in even a broken windscreen! Suffice to say, this is why addressing this particular problem might not be overkill...at least in my case. Only time will tell...
Further down the list was my intention to get the nasty broken 3rd brake light sorted.
So it was off to the stealers yesterday to pick up an original replacement unit which has exactly the same design flaws as the broken one, i.e. made of brittle plastic and a poor fitment interface relative to boot operation.
i.e. the combination of poor quality plastics and the action of closing ones boot will, over time lead to eventual failure, thus completing the component life-cycle.
Reading a few posts indicates to not tighten the 3 fixing nuts as hard as factory setting but to fingertight until the unit is JUST secure enough. I think I read somewhere that weaker upgrade springs are available but my local stealer, Ekris Utrecht didn't know anything about this unsurprisingly.
To augment the risk mitigation against failure from slamming forces I've wrapped the internal 'horizontal' faces in ribbed electrical tape, minimizing hard material contact under slam load (shutting the boot).
It's akin to something basic we do in design engineering where failure mitigation is compensated by vibration/ accelerative load force damping. I've lathered the whole of the internal computer housings in the Eurofighter Typhoon with sorbothane and other load-absorbing high-density composites - luckily there hasn't been a failure yet....
i dont have 3mm sorbothane sheet to hand and i don't think there's enough clearance anyway - so good old electrical tape will have to do! Maybe this will help others with a similar problem/requirement.
Will post update in a few months...or at least a few times where my good ladyfriend Laura has forgot/ignored my repeated polite requests to shut the boot lightly. Something she's done many times previously is slammed the boot so hard its resulted in even a broken windscreen! Suffice to say, this is why addressing this particular problem might not be overkill...at least in my case. Only time will tell...
