Rear Turn Signals 2020 MT 03 Re-used with Clean Tail Kit
Channel: Aaron Schwarz
Date: 2021-09-07

I recently removed the dorky looking OEM "Whale Tail" rear fender from our 2020 Yamaha MT-03. I was really tired & had to clean up the garage with Meg on that day so I stopped short taking the rear fender assembly apart to harvest the OEM LED turn signals. So, in this video, we take the turn signals out of the OEM fender kit & you see them attached with copper wire to the new low profile bracket, functioning as turn signals, woot woo. 

I needed to make this bike road legal before operating it on public roads to comply with local laws & regulations regarding safety lamp function & signaling lights operating in working order & of the correct color so as to alert other drivers with visible blinking of orange or red light in the case of the turn signals or brake light in the rear of the motorcycle -- if thats not a run on sentence, show me how its done with a comment /// 

Up-cycling or reusing the OEM turn signals on the aftermarket low profile rear bracket about making use of the nicely made OEM turn signals, which owing unto their strange rubber mount required me to use copper wire to attach the units to the mounting bracket. I cut about 12 inch of wire in two segments, one for the left & one for the right. I use the exact same folding & twisting & interlocking of the wire on both sides to add visual symmetry since that looks cooler. 

It already looks a little hacked together because of the lack of clean interface between the turn signal housing & the mounting bracket, but that is totally ok with me. I am not vain & place function over form. This is also eco-friendly because I did not consume or buy new turn signals & the OEM LED units are in perfect condition & very bright & light up very fast owning unto the LED design // 

I had to use a steel cutting knife to modify the wire hole in the after market bracket so that the OEM connectors could actually get through the bracket. I started with Oxygen Propane torch to "modify" one edge of the aluminum rectangular hole. Then I used a box knife with a steel blade to precision shave lots of bits of aluminum until the turn signal connector could clear the hole- that was intensive & not in the video thankfully!