Givi E52 blew a spring

[wfooshee]

Unlocked the Givi the other day and the latch popped open! By itself.

Now, you normally have to go through quite a rigamarole to pop it open after unlocking. You have to push the carry handle in far enough to get your finger under the latch and pop it out (difficult with heavy gloves,) or turn the key far enough to extend the carry handle and you can reach under the latch more easily. Apparently there's a spring which holds the latch down when unlocked.

Not any more. Unlock it, the latch pops right out. To close the case I have to hold the latch down while turning the key in the lock. Easy to do one-handed, so I think I actually prefer it this way. It still locks securely, so I'll use it for a bit and decide if I want to keep it like this or get it fixed like it was.

When I get a minute, I might could be bothered to photograph the afflicted part.

 

[dcarver]

Pix!

 

[Bustanut joker]

He didn't "blow" anything carver... He blew a spring.

Go get your porn somewhere else Uncle Pervy..

:lol:

:jester:

 

[wfooshee]

Well, since ya axed so nice and all.

The coiled spring at the left-hand side of the mechanism here, just under the center red panel, shown pre-busted-ass. (The lower cover, with the lock, is removed here, from my match-your-bike-key-to-your-Givi-case thread.) Now pranged right in twain, nothing holds the latch down when unlocked.

I'm kinda thinkin' I like it this way. When you unlock to remove the case, the latch pops open, and after you pop the carry handle you have to hold the latch down and relock the key to carry the case, but that's the only point at which I have extra steps that didn't exist before. I almost never remove the case anyway, so that's no big deal. The case is much easier to get into, and not that much more trouble to secure.

I should say that I'm into the case many times a day, since I ride to work every day and store my jacket and overpants in the case while at work. The case is about a year and a half old, so that handle's probably been worked a few thousand times, at least.

No, the spring wasn't damaged or over-extended during my re-keying work, as that part of the mechanism was not disassembled, just removed from the case as a unit.