Author Topic: The moaning old git thread (Read 534534 times)

Brockett · « **Reply #3720 on:** February 21, 2024, 13:02:35 »

Sorry no. I use Firefox. But find their search engine is heavily USA biased. However that's not much use when looking for things in the UK. Google understands I am in the UK and shows me more UK stuff. Errrrr maybe that's because Google has spyware in my house wardrobes and garage. But I won't have that speaker do-dab that listens to me farting and helpfully starts playing RAP at me!

Brockett · « **Reply #3721 on:** February 21, 2024, 13:17:44 »

Light bulbs. How did they become so varied?
On the XJ the oil light bulb is no good it has never worked but is one of the jobs I am getting round to.
The book says it's a 12v3.4w.
OK I remove the headlight and the revcounter and pull the cover of it to remove the bulb and it has no marking on it.
It's small and capless
I go to a dealer and they look at the Fowlers catalog and I order what they say I need
In a week it arives and I collect it and guess what? it doesn't fit because like me it is too fat

I have searched as much as an old person can, but am unable to find any information on the actual dimensions of such bulbs
It offers me a T10 with no explanation. Has anyone got a link to information on this?

Upt North · « **Reply #3722 on:** February 21, 2024, 13:29:14 »

https://www.eurocarparts.com/p/lucas-297-12v-2w-capless-bulb-single-bulb-481772242?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA29auBhBxEiwAnKcSqvYyEVzpflE6UNYaVS0Z_A1mD_O3kb1k9YOCToZ5pZbJfs4EptPrgRoCxFIQAvD_BwE

Is it like this Lucas?

Brockett · « **Reply #3723 on:** February 21, 2024, 15:48:40 »

Yes, but I need to find the dimensions I am looking for a bulb that is about 4.5mm wide and so far no one is showing the size in mm

Upt North · « **Reply #3724 on:** February 21, 2024, 16:16:05 »

https://www.ringautomotive.com/en/product/R284

This website site provides bulb dimensions and a selection of capless bulbs.
Good luck.
Upt.

Brockett · « **Reply #3725 on:** February 21, 2024, 17:07:44 »

Thanks
I have searched many sites but nowhere can I find a 12v 3.4w capless bulb T5. Even Robinsons are showing the size as a T10 ( 10mm base ) which I believe fits the Diversion model with a fairing and large dashboard. Robinsons only quote the Yamaha part number which I suspect has lumped both models together.
I can buy a T5 but not in the required wattage. I feel that a lower wattage will render the light too dim for daylight viewing and as its the low oil light I think it should be right.
Looks like I will have to drive 40 miles to the Yamaha dealer.

Ianmc · « **Reply #3726 on:** February 22, 2024, 10:29:24 »

Have you tried https://www.vehiclewiringproducts.co.uk/
They keep a really good range of bike stuff.

UK_Vstrom650 · « **Reply #3727 on:** February 22, 2024, 11:01:29 »

Good luck Brockett.
Understand the desire to get the correct wattage bulb, but if you're still struggling, any working bulb will be better than one that doesn't work.

Rixington43 · « **Reply #3728 on:** February 22, 2024, 11:21:43 »

An LED upgrade might give you the brightness if a 3W is too dim.
https://www.classiccarleds.co.uk/products/10-x-286-t5-led-dashboard-upgrade-bulbs-t5-74-various-colours?variant=8299347181663

Even Yambits only list 3W now for a T5. Of course a 2024 3W might be as bright as a 1994 3.4W ;)
https://yambits.co.uk/12v-3w-capless-bulb-p-150742.html

Can't remember your year but wemoto list a 5mm 3W bulb as well. Might have to swallow the 0.4W drop.
https://www.wemoto.com/bike/yamaha/xj/600/1995/1624/bulb-instrument-capless-5mm-3w

* Appreciate you may have seen and discarded these options already

Brockett · « **Reply #3729 on:** February 22, 2024, 11:51:56 »

NOT ~~robinsons~~ I should have written Fowlers.

Ordered yesterday and arrived this morning. Superfast delivery

of the wrong bulbs

Yamaha have published the wrong part number or more likely have recorded the wrong part number to the item
The problem being the bulbs are a T5 , a smidge under 5mm and what the Yamaha part number supplies is a T10, a smidge under 10mm. There is no way of fitting the larger bulb due to the small aperture in the instrument casing as well as the smaller bulb holder.
I rather suspect the T10 bulb part number is for the Diversion with a fairing and a larger display.

Rixington43 · « **Reply #3730 on:** February 22, 2024, 12:03:19 »

Bugger.
Well wemoto do state 5mm in the description but I suspect that might be a nominal 5mm as a conversation from some sort of "groats and bushels of grain" based system from yesteryear 🤣.

Brockett · « **Reply #3731 on:** February 22, 2024, 12:23:00 »

Thanks all who have offered advice.
Vehicle wiring products seem to be only dealing with LEDs, Yambits don't offer any clue as to the physical dimensions of the bulbs,
I have just spoken to Wemoto and at the risk of £1.00 and free postage I have opted for their 5mm 3w bulb. It only lights up when the oil level is too low. But there are 3 other warning lights of the same size and wattage.
I may well investigate the LED option although, as you may expect and as I know truly know, the depth of my ignorance may lead me down a very deep rabbit hole.
Never mind ... as it's still p'ing down and is set to be wet until well into March I'm not losing much riding time. Commiserations and full respect to all who have to ride whatever the weather ( yes I did that for quite a few years- shift work and couldn't afford a car) I'll keep you updated.
Actually my experience with this has thrown a whole new meaning on the expression "a lightbulb moment".

mr_diver · « **Reply #3732 on:** February 22, 2024, 13:16:25 »

They are know as "Fowlups" for a reason.

Brockett · « **Reply #3733 on:** February 23, 2024, 11:12:49 »

Ordered from Wemoto about 12 20 yesterday and the bulb in an envelope arrived in morning post

well done Royal Mail, all the way from Brighton overnight and well done Wemoto for supplying the correct part for £1 post paid .

Rixington43 · « **Reply #3734 on:** February 23, 2024, 11:18:23 »

Top stuff, given it's the oil light, let's hope you never find out if it works ;)

Brockett · « **Reply #3735 on:** February 23, 2024, 17:51:55 »

I went to Halfords in Chelmsford to buy a rear window wiper for the Doblo. I use their screen to pick out the one that fits and pay for it
Out in the carpark I find it doesn't fit. Back in the shop I end up with a chap who checks his phone and he arranges a refund.
he says go to GSF round the back on the industrial estate because they sell them.
I drive round the industrial area and eventually find the place
Do you sell these, I show him the wiper, and say my reg number which he taps into his PC
Yes we do sell them Hooray! .... but we don't have one in stock . He can get one for next week or I can pick one up from their Colchester store.
Me....thinks, OMG another wasteland industrial estate ... the A12 roadworks is chaos and delays and Colchester is dreadful at the best of times.
I say thanks and drive home wondering if I get one on line and have it delivered.
Like shoe laces
I can't buy shoe laces anywhere within 30 miles so I go on line and get 3 pairs off Ebay the size I want the colour I want. They cost me less than the fuel costs for a 60 mile round trip. It surely is a crazy world.

duck-strom · « **Reply #3736 on:** February 24, 2024, 08:57:19 »

Brockett
Like you on the shoe laces I ended up ordering boot laces from eBay after a recent visit to my local key cutting /shoe repair shop. I asked for 2 pairs of 140cm laces and the young lad in the shop guided me to the rack of boot laces so that I could choose which colour I wanted, all good I thought. Get to the till and "that'll be £30 please", flabbergasted I declined to pay and the youngster didn't seem able to comprehend what the problem was!!

Upt North · « **Reply #3737 on:** February 24, 2024, 10:23:03 »

Shoppin ain't what it used to be.
We used to live in North Staffordshire and everything was a half hour traffic clogged drive away. After having enough of that nonsense we moved Upt'North.
This is where Internet shoppin really comes into its own, although we have well-stocked food emporiums for anything else it's a journey, and inevitably they haven't got what you want when you get there. Our nearest towns are 20 miles away and large towns around 50 miles each way. Or should I say Toon....yes I should.
I ordered some Honda lawnmower and brush cutter bits the other day, I think the place was in Bolton. They arrived in 21 hours from ordering online. Now it'll take me 21 days to fit them.
Pffffffftttttt.
Upt.

porter · « **Reply #3738 on:** February 28, 2024, 10:43:22 »

The wife bought a new car yesterday, it's an all singing all dancing small hybrid type with a ton of things I will never use but the one thing I thought it had but doesn't was a CD player. I removed my cd's from the old car and put them in the new car but couldn't find the little slot ( not the first time for that!) because there is none. Everything to be done with your phone, I hate phones so no music for me. And if it beeps at me one more time, left door open, window open, 2 mph above the speed limit etc etc Sometimes, for me all the time ,simple is better.

Upt North · « **Reply #3739 on:** February 28, 2024, 15:44:44 »

If there's a USB slot you can memory stick the music in.
My new motor is the same.
Upt.