Make Your Turn Signals Brighter!

Although the stock turn signals on the V-Strom are nice are large and very visible, much of the light is lost within the indicator housing.  This is because apart from the lens the inside of the whole unit is black, thus if 50% of the light travels out the lens, that means 50% of the light from the bulb doesn't!


This is another cheap and easy modification that I think is extremely worth wile taking the time to do.  And if you are already planning to buy some 3M Solas tape to modify your OEM topbox (see my previous blog entry), then you already have the materials anyway.


So it couldn't be simpler..

Remove the lens and this is what you have.  Pretty dull right?

Stick 3M Solas tape all around the edges

There you have it, looking better all ready

This is WITHOUT the Solas tape

This is WITH the Solas tape

Now you have lovely bright turn signals

Its quide hard to quantify without a light meter, but looking at the before and after images, I would say the difference is about an extra 50% light.

Have fun.