Deanna777
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2012 spyders had jumper posts under the seat. ( my first spyder was a 2012 rts-se5).
Also the battery was underneath the seat.
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What are these brackets for?
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Also the battery was underneath the seat.
Deanna
IdahoMtnSpyder
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I wondered about that as I didn't think the battery was that accessible, but I didn't see any indication of them on the parts diagram pic of the positive and ground cables. Maybe I just didn't look close enough! Or, I guess I could've looked in the owner's manual! They're shown there but labelled terminals, not posts.
Bart
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Pish posh, who looks at the owners manual!? That's like reading installation instructions.....
Bob Denman
New member
The battery was hidden behind the left saddlebag... The jumper terminals were actually a pretty necessary item on these bikes.
Remember the fun that you could have; after loosening the screws that were in the terminals? (Try getting a wrench underneath them in order to tighten them back up... :gaah
Deanna777
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I connected the "pig tail" to the battery, to run the battery/maintainer to keep the battery charged ( it had the 998 engine). Deanna
Purple Guy
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It is kind of hard to see the mounts in question but I will hazard a guess that the mounts are for the electronic actuator for the frunk lid release that was discontinued in either 2012 or 2013.
IdahoMtnSpyder
Active member
Nope. The mounts in the OP supported the battery jumper posts in 2013 only. The frunk lid actuator was mounted directly on the frunk lid latch mechanism.
zuni
Member
I think the hunt for the purpose still continues because the brackets exist in my 2015 F3s as well as our 2017 RTs. I would agree with an earlier post that there are used outside of NA for something.
CJ JAX
I dunno, I thought that the 'hunt' for their purpose is well & truly over. As has been pointed out earlier, the brackets are for the remote battery terminal block on the 2013 Spyders.
2013 was the year that saw the last significant changes to the frame; before then, the battery was under the seat so there was no need for those brackets & they aren't on the earlier models. But along came 2013 & the new frame with those posts/brackets, which were put there to hold the remote battery terminals, basically so you didn't have to open up the battery case that's down in the depths of the frunk. The brackets are located under the black cover under the trailing edge of the frunk lid just below the LH headlight (ie, in the top of the frunk below the headlight that's in front of the Spyder ahead of a seated rider's left knee - they're on the opposite side to where the frunk light & the 'frunk still open' micro switch is located!)
I don't know why the 1330 RT Spyders after 2013 didn't get those remote battery terminals/posts, but that is what that bracket held, and the frame hasn't had any significant changes since, and without any significant frame changes needed, every RT Spyder since 2013 still scored the brackets! Simples! :thumbup:
2013 was the year that saw the last significant changes to the frame; before then, the battery was under the seat so there was no need for those brackets & they aren't on the earlier models. But along came 2013 & the new frame with those posts/brackets, which were put there to hold the remote battery terminals, basically so you didn't have to open up the battery case that's down in the depths of the frunk. The brackets are located under the black cover under the trailing edge of the frunk lid just below the LH headlight (ie, in the top of the frunk below the headlight that's in front of the Spyder ahead of a seated rider's left knee - they're on the opposite side to where the frunk light & the 'frunk still open' micro switch is located!)
I don't know why the 1330 RT Spyders after 2013 didn't get those remote battery terminals/posts, but that is what that bracket held, and the frame hasn't had any significant changes since, and without any significant frame changes needed, every RT Spyder since 2013 still scored the brackets! Simples! :thumbup:
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zuni
Member
Valid argument but why are they on a different model that wasn't made until two years after? They exist on both my F3s and F3t series as well.
CJ Jax
They are on all the Spyder models made after 2013 - BRP haven't changed the frame significantly since then so instead of making a fairly expensive design & tooling change just to delete a couple of superfluous brackets, they are still there & all models get them! This is something that happens a whole lot in the automotive industry & many other industries that manufacture similar things, & BRP isn't any different or doing anything different to all the other manufacturers in this, they are saving the $$ by not making needless changes until there's a big enough reason to actually make the change worthwhile! I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were other brackets somewhere on the frame that aren't still being used as well.... :thumbup:
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M109Dreamer
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This has been brought up in the past, and I believe someone had posted that it is a bracket the factory uses when building it. To move that portion of the Spyder from station to station.
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