Templar X 250

[Texas Pete]

Well I had pre-inspection OCD. The guy on the phone at the inspection company let me know they must see the plate on the bike. That is jammed behind the headlight assembly and on my bike the wiring bag is smashed up against it blocking the plate. I had nightmare of some kid trying to move my wiring to see the plate and breaking the wires or other skullduggery.


Plus I wasn't happy with the factory routing of the cabling, I still didn't have 100% clear view at all times during riding of the digital dash. And reading posts of people having to get whole headlight assemblies to replace the headlight didn't sound right so for the third and finally, hopefully, final time I took off the headlight assembly and went to town.





Focusing on the headlight bulb assembly the rear rubber did come off and is as suspected a waterproof boot.





Behind the boot is a connector, that means a bulb that is replaceable to my mind.





And low out comes a H4 9003 LED bulb! Absolutely no markings, no data, probably the cheapest H4 9003 LED that could be bought in bulk for OEM use. Likely not the full wattage limits for H4 9003 allowed on the roads here.





Lots of passive aluminum heat sink material. I note that some of these higher wattage replacement bulbs have active fan cooling, but the space behind the headlight assembly is tight with all the wires smooshed up against the back of the headlight bulb.





Yep. Looks like a standard connector and it has alignment tabs. Why would that be... (to be continued)