Fried Toasty Brown Connector

[The Fixer]

I used two, 3 position connectors to replace the white plug but they have 2 position connectors also, you need two of them, and then cut back to clean wire and solder and assemble. Each wire gets a weather tite seal.

Who is "they?" That's a great looking set up but of no use to anyone if you don't tell us where to get them, if you know what I mean.

[JBC]

The supplier is Hi-Line but sells only to accounts. I'm asking my rep if he can take orders by email and ship direct to whomever. I'll post the part numbers and his email soon.

[The Fixer]

Great...they look like just the ticket.

[Arrow]

I find it very hard to believe that a solidly mounted coil would just break in half. Possibly the plug wire was stressed at a previous service by an over zealous mechanic?

That's what I thought at first. The mechanic who changed the plugs and the mechanic who first saw the state of the coils are different (not from the same shop), so when I mentioned the possibility of faulty installation to the latter, he said it looked like the result of high temperatures (The fronts look fine. Sure enough when I looked at the coils I came to the same conclusion the plastics were full of cracks and look slightly discolored).

It certainly hasn't been a common failure on U.S. bikes.

Different batch for bikes destined to US perhaps? In any case you guys are lucky, they are expensive at 125 USD per piece...