Help - Newbie with position light problem!

Hi guys. New to the forum. Looking for some help. Picked up my new silver NC700X today. Thought I would change the position light for an LED bulb I had. Next thing I know the bulb fell out of the holder and into the reflector! Crap! Can someone post instructions for headlight removal? Thanks!

You'll need to remove the seat, the white body panels each side of the 'notank', then the main black body panels each side of the bike, there is a black plastic shroud that clips onto the plastic that surrounds the headlight (immediately in front of the handlebars), you'll have to remove and disconnect the instrument pod (four bolts) and then there are two bolts each side of the headlight to remove, then gently ease the black plastic headlight surround from around the location that the instrument pod fastens to and the whole headlight will then tilt forward. You'll need to disconnect the electronics.

You'll have in excess of a dozen bolts and a similar number of plastic clips so it may be worth keeping note of where they all go.

I've done it a few times and it takes me about 30 minutes to get the headlight out.

It would be worth referring to the workshop manual.

It should end up looking similar to the below picture.

Cheers Dave. I managed to get it sorted. I had knocked the bulb down into the back of the headlight. A WD40 straw with some sticky tape on the end saw it retrieved - success!

I have the same shit.....

I feel your pain! Hope you get it sorted!

Sometimes you can vacuum them out. Make a crude adapter of a vacuum cleaner hose down to a small rubber hose and feed the hose into the cavity.

Red hassett said:

Hi guys. New to the forum. Looking for some help. Picked up my new silver NC700X today. Thought I would change the position light for an LED bulb I had. Next thing I know the bulb fell out of the holder and into the reflector! Crap! Can someone post instructions for headlight removal? Thanks!

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What is a position light?

The small light above the headlight

bigjeff said:

What is a position light?

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Us North American dudes don't have them on our bikes, our front turn signals act as running lights instead. Curiously enough, I think that front turn signal running lights are illegal over in the UK. (I believe, anyway. Maybe someone can confirm if I'm wrong)

As far as the NC700X goes, I mean. Some N.A. spec bikes do have the same front position light as their Euro brothers. My CBR125R has the same position light as the UK versions. It varies bike to bike over here, but the UK guys versions don't change.

L.B.S. said:

Us North American dudes don't have them on our bikes, our front turn signals act as running lights instead. Curiously enough, I think that front turn signal running lights are illegal over in the UK. (I believe, anyway. Maybe someone can confirm if I'm wrong)

As far as the NC700X goes, I mean. Some N.A. spec bikes do have the same front position light as their Euro brothers. My CBR125R has the same position light as the UK versions. It varies bike to bike over here, but the UK guys versions don't change.

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That's correct as we are only allowed to show a white light to the front other than the flashing indicators. However my Vetter equipped GL1100 had the indicators wired as running lights and I never got stopped for it