New revised cct from Honda .

bikerpiker · Post by **bikerpiker** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:00 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Honda-vtr1000-fir ... otohosting

New revised version with the orange dot

, do any of you guys know exactly how they are revised

Wicky · Post by **Wicky** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:35 pm

Not necessarily a sign of any significant reengineering from original - more spin

LotusSevenMan wrote:Yep!
Internals are the same whatever the dot colour (orange, purple etc). It is a quality control mark and not indicative of changes to spec.

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB2/viewtopic ... +dot#90571

white dots

http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB2/viewtopic ... +dot#68982

Post by **sirch345** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:51 pm

I've yet to see any hard evidence from Mr Honda that there have ever been any upgrades

But in this case it would be nice to be proven wrong

Chris.

BarryH · Post by **BarryH** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:17 pm

The orange dot is about 4/5 years old now. I had them fitted as part of the deal when I bought the bike from a honda dealer. They went and I bought 2 new ones from honda, they had yellow dots, that was about a year or so ago.
David Silver buys old stock from dealers etc. Not to say that those won't be bad ones, they've nevver been fitted to a bike.
I spoke to one of the techies in the dealership and he told me that packing them with grease makes them last longer....well the front one anway. Don't know how true that is.

chuxsta · Post by **chuxsta** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:45 pm

ok so the dot colour shows the approx age,
i have a white dot on mine, from what i can make out from the posts on here is that they are probably the ones that came with it as mine is a 2004 model

Storm Trooper · Post by **Storm Trooper** » Sun Dec 14, 2008 11:27 pm

According to Honda themselves, the Colour dots only seem to represent a quality control mark. I am still on the original tensioners on my bike (97 with 40000kms) and the tensioners are pink on the front and white on the rear.

As for the tensioner on the link to ebay, as per all tensioners bought they are wound up so the spring is loaded. If these are to be stored surely would it not be better for the tensioner to be extended to allow for the load to be taken off the spring while stored?

Opinions please.

Cheers