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[thecoast]

OK, well I just installed the 12 VDC kit. The instructions are very thorough except for the part about needing to install the fuse. :-) Figured that out and all was good.

It is a little elaborate and there are instructions for removing a line that isn't there, at least not there in my Spyder (temperature/pressure sensor). That is, the line is somewhere else given that the temperature does display.

You have to remove the nose from the Spyder--or should I say proboscis?--in order to install the thing. What I don't understand is that the accessory plug is already there, but you have to remove it from storage in the frame to connect the thing. Why it isn't already available, I can only guess but won't.

Electrical question
[Edited out. Found and understood the answer].

Service complaint
Now, I bought my Spyder at Chaparral Motorsports in San Bernardino, Ca. So I go take it in for its break-in service like a good little boy. So they call me to tell me that they didn't have the oil filter! What, I mean, is up with that?

I was able to get the filter from Malcolm Smith's dealership. But Malcolm Smith's didn't have but one quart of oil.
However, MS did have other stuff! Cowl for the passenger seat, 6-spoke wheels, bags, covers, shields, pretty much almost everything on BRP's site.

I wound up changing the oil myself, but the engine drain plug was so tight, it took me hours to figure out how to get the thing out. (Used the chuck of an impact driver to dig a flat head screw in deep enough to get a bite).

Anyway, I'm going to change my own oil from now on.

And I'm probably going to stick with Malcolm Smith service in the future, should I need it.

Peace.

---Luis