Richard-BKK

If the dashboard LEDs failure happened because of moisture, and you didn’t fix it right away, the moisture will probably speed-up oxidization of more electronic components and electronic pathway on printboard.

Honda has a 3-year warranty on the electronics of your motorcycle, but with corrosion of the electronic printboard you will likely lose all warranty claims because of neglect maintenance…

The LED lights in a Honda CBR250R dashboard are even easier to replace than with the Honda PCX150. I spoke with a few mechanics from a prominent Honda dealer in Bangkok, and all of the mechanics agreed that problems with the dashboard lights was a known issue but almost always the result of a small crash or dashboard damage by which moisture was able to enter the dashboard.

The LED lights in the Honda CBR250R dashboard are bigger and produce much more light, so lenses are not needed. Downside of this setup is that because of the larger printboard mounted LEDs, more heat is produced which with the right amount of moisture can cause problems.

Now should Honda have made the dashboard of the Honda CBR250R stronger or the sealing more rigid so it could withstand some more bumps? Maybe...

If Honda has a known problem with the dashboard, would not more people complain? I remember the few days before Honda confirmed that they would recall the Honda CBR300R and CB300F for an engine problem, you could not open a motorcycle or automotive forum or you were confronted with people complaining about have issues...

12 hours ago, speedtripler said:

I thought hondas have a 3 or   5 yr warranty 

 if the speedo lights  stopped working id argue this should be covered before paying a few K to fix it 

(providing it failed inside the warranty period )

 

although ,bear in mind TIT and the customer is not even right ,hes a nuisance

99.9 percent of lights in the dashboard not working is the result of a crash or the motorcycle falling. Anything that stops working as a result of a crash or the motorcycle / scoot falling is not covered by the warranty of the motorcycle/scoot.

I can be wrong, as I didn’t checked it for some time – but since Thailand has banned all foreign registered motorcycles entering Thailand... It would be not un-logical for Laos doing something similar. I would recommend that you contact the Laos embassy in Bangkok for the most up-to-date information.

I not have an email from the Laos embassy, but you can call them during business hours at 02-539-6679

The Lifan LF250-B is identical to the Yamaha Virago 250,  which dates back to 1984 - Lifan bought the rights from Yamaha including some production facilities. Yamaha moved all cruisers to American factories and renamed the brand V-Star Motorcycles. The engine of the Lifan LF250-B is a rock-solid design and not much can go wrong if you keep maintenance up-to-date. The 1984 V-twin 250cc engine is so reliable that Yamaha even today uses it for the Yamaha V-Star 250 cruiser.

Lifan also sells the 250cc V-twin cruiser to several European countries so they had to fix some exhaust emission problems, they replaced the carburetors with a modern electronic fuel injection system developed by an leading American company. Yamaha on the other hand is still using for the 2017 V-Star 250 good old trusty carburetors.

The Honda Phantom TA200 was in production from 2001 until the beginning of 2010. It was only sold in Thailand and for some small amount of units in Australia - where it was called the Honda Shadow TA200. With that the worldwide base for spare-part manufacturing is very very small. On the other hand the Kawasaki Boss BN175, which was originally a Bajaj Eliminator BN175 which was sold in India in huge numbers and even today you would not have any problems finding the most difficult engine parts if you use a few Indian contacts... And yes, the Kawasaki Boss BN175 was a Indian manufactured motorcycle assembled in Thailand by a company called Tiger Motor... That was before Kawasaki together with Bajaj opened shop themselves in Thailand.

If the LEDs are not damaged, a complete Honda PCX150 LENS assembly (part number 37211-K45-305) will set you back a few hundred THB... If in a serious bump the gasket has got damaged, a new gasket will also cost you a few hundred THB (Honda part number 37205-K35-V01). But often disassembling the dashboard and reassembling with the gasket in the correct way will be enough... If by some stupidity the dashboard case got damaged and has cracked, a new complete case assembly will cost you around 1000 THB (Honda part number 37212-K35-V01).

Time to repair, 15 to 20 minutes... not rushing it...

The problem is likely that OP used Cat.7 cable but used the standard Cat.5/Cat.6 connectors. With Cat.7 cable the additional shielding needs to be connected to the connector, Cat.7 cable connectors have an extension that connects to the shielding of the cable. Also Cat.7 cable connectors are made from metal to connect with computer...

See example of a Cat.7 connector

My two cents about small cruisers, I would not recommend a Honda Phantom AT200 or a Kawasaki Boss 175, both models are more than 10 years out of production and some spare-parts are getting hard to get…

The Keeway Superlight 200 is a wonderful machine for what it cost, but for touring the countryside it has maybe not enough power. The Lifan LF250-B is a older model which comes with carburetors, Lifan already has the LF250-P which is equipped with fuel-injection. Keeway also has a nice small 250cc V-twin cruiser with fuel-injection it’s called the Blackster 250…

As alternative for the Honda Phantom 200, Honda currently has the Rebel 300 which is an excellent small 286cc single-cylinder cruiser… Personally I would prefer a V-twin 250cc as it produces less vibration at cruising speed...

5 hours ago, Pepper9187 said:

Do not buy a r6 in Thailand, i repeat : Do not buy a r6 !

 

Too deadly, it's quick, too quick, feels too light = makes you do lots of shit

Just get a Cb650 or m7-07, i know it's not really comparable to the r6 but it's got enough power for Thailand.

 

Ninja 650 maybe, but i heard it was quite a shitty bike for a 650.

The Kawasaki Ninja 650 is for years the best value for money motorcycle around the world, the new 2017 Kawasaki Ninja 650 ABS can stand-up to the performance of any in the same class and road handling has also improved by a major leap... This all by still being one of the lowest costing machines available in Thailand...

Is the new 2017 Kawasaki Ninja 650 ABS perfect, no - but it damn gets close - and surely not the new and the old are anything I would call a "shitty bike" which is clearly a comment from somebody who maybe never even touched the KAwasaki Ninja 650 or its naked brother the ER6n and the new Z650.....

4 hours ago, eisfeld said:

The stock 2017 R6 from what I've read in reviews is underwhelming. But with the race kit (which makes it not road legal) it actually can be quite nice. Then again at the mentioned price of 550k THB it's very much overpriced. Just not worth it imho. The MT-07 and CB(R)650F are a much better proposition. More practical and nearly half the price while probably just as much fun if not more because you are not doing track days.

 

The R3 can be boring after a while, I know my CBR500R got boring power wise. Imho the torque and power of the mentioned middleweights can be rewarding for a long time. And if unsure, step up to the MT-09, that should have plenty of poke to keep your heart happy for a while. And on top it got much more grunt down low than an R6. There are good reasons why most manufacturers have cancelled the 600cc track bike class. Yamaha is the only one keeping it on life support with the updated R6.

Don't listen to much to the Honda propaganda, the 2017 Suzuki GSX-R600 and the 2017 Kawasaki ZX-6R are still very much alive... Sure Yamaha is currently leading the pack with the latest upgrade...

I believe that the Yamaha YZF-R6 is in Thailand is only available as track-racing machine. Maybe the 2017 model will also be available as rod legal motorcycle, but I would not hold your breath.

Another jump in data usage can be that you installed or upgraded to the new Google picture/photo manager and didn't do a correct setup. You should set the settings upload picture to Google account for backup only when using WIFI... sometimes this is not default and means all and every picture you take will be uploaded to your Google account...

Most of the time when the light in the dashboard of a modern motorcycle/scooter is failing, it has a problem that moister has got into the dashboard. The most common problem doesn't even involve the LEDs, most of the time the lense has moved a millimeter or 2 and the light of the LED is not direct into the lense anymore... Both the moister and dislocated lense can happen when the motorcycle or scoot falls or is involved in an accident... The dashboard can look on the outside perfect but internal it had a blow, or a seal has been broken...

By the way the problem is not only related to Honda, other manufacturers like Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki also use soldered on LED lights in the dashboard. If you really don't like LEDs soldered on the printboard, you should buy a Lifan, Zongshen, GPX or another Chinese motorcycle, as they often still use the good old light bulbs in the dashboard....

I had found that classified advertising before, and my first reaction was that something was off, in some of the pictures the background looks more like a European (English) country sight. Of course I could be wrong, the second thing was how he got a 1953 Vincent (recently build from new parts) past the Thai Roadworthy and Environmental testing. I have problems with much younger machines and cannot imagine how a 1953 Vincent would even get near the Thai exhaust emission standard....

Third, most people who sell a classic/collectible motorcycle do not publish the sales price, as most people who are interested know how much a 1953 Vincent is worth. On the other hand I can imagine that some people in Thailand would think a 64-year old bike would be very cheap... but than I would not try to sell a 1953 Vincent on Bahtsold website, but will contact several classic-bike clubs and have it sold within a few days...

First you have to figure out which memory you need, you can look that up in the manual of the mainboard or computer. If your computer is a few years old your computer probably uses DDR3, if a bit older it uses DDR2... and if we talking older than that if uses DDR memory (but then also forget trying to upgrade).

Most flip-front helmets are only certified as open-face-helmet, only a few brand names have both certification for open-face-helmet and full-face-helmet for the flip-front helmet. As example the Shark Evo3 is certified for both open-face and full-face...

Of course the brand names that are both open-face and full-face certified are not at the budget level...

The part number to fix this is 37210-K36-A01, it's basically the whole electronic back (printboard) plate of the dashboard. It's also one of the most expensive part of the Honda PCX150 which is not engine related...

You can un-solder and solder new LED light on the print board pretty easy, but as I'm getting older I prefer to let somebody else do it... For fun you can change the LED light colors, most people who un-solder and solder new LED lights are modifiers that want more exotic color in the dashboard...

8 minutes ago, GaryB1263 said:

That's interesting. Can you use the bike while the board is being repaired?

To be honest, I never tried it – on some modern motorcycles/scooters the dashboard is also houses some essential electronics for the operation of the motorcycle. In the case of a Honda PCX150 you probably can use the scoot, but I would not recommend it….

Fixing the lights in the dashboard is not that difficult. When I was younger I did it myself, but now-a-day, if a dashboard of a modern motorcycle/scooter go’s dark I disassemble the complete meter assembly and bring the electric board to my local television repair shop… 2 day later pick it up and fixed cost 300 THB… hardly worth the money to do it yourself…

The MS Windows 10 Creators Update can cause problems if you’re using a virtual machine, or try to install the update on a computer that has some older graphics card.

Apparently some of the work around's is to disable the graphics card driver and use a ‘standard’ vesa resolution to install the Windows upgrade. After the install is completely finished you can install the driver again and all seems to work perfectly.

Hmm, the truth is that without Moto2 and Moto3 we would not have the top racers in the MotoGP. As all new names in MotoGP come from Moto2 racing...

Moto2 forces riders to fine tune the riding skills and not rely on power to win the race. Moto2 is also very important for chassis and suspension development.

For some in motorcycle racing it’s not a surprise that Yamaha is this year so dominant in the MotoGP, and why on a bit difficult circuit in Argentina only the two teams that are also active in Moto2 racing scored points. You could say that this two teams have superior chassis and suspension knowledge...

1 hour ago, papa al said:

How much costs the 150cc?

Looks like a MSlaz for shorties.

 

Unclear, air-cooled, or oil radiator?

The last time I saw a price list from GPX the price of the Demon 150 was 58,500 THB... I have to say that it was some time ago that I saw it :)

Just for additional information, Benelli also has a very similar design called the Benelli TNT135, which I think cost 59,900 THB.. I can be wrong of course...

The official manufacturer is GPX and the model is for 2017 available with a 150cc engine, that gives the little extra push over the competition... You can find them here http://www.gpxthailand.com for more information. Obviously they not have any Ducati decals available, but behind MBK center in Bangkok you can find several shops that sell additional body panels and stickers, logo's and anything else you fancy....

1 hour ago, Pepper9187 said:

I don't think so ;

 

I bought my bike 3 years ago, 2nd hand from thai owner, i got it checked at red baron, they changed on my request:

Air filter / Oil filter / Spark plugs / Oil / Coolant / brake fluids / front and rear sprockets / Chain.

 

Didn't paid any "entry fee" for this, but don't tell me they changed so badly !?

Maybe they changed, some time ago they wanted 'entry fee' for servicing motorcycles they had not sold. I know that it's still practiced by some dealers but maybe it becomes more a thing of the past.