I was driving down the highway on my 2012 Street glide and the lid flew open. I pulled over and found all 5 small bolts that holds the hinge/handle to the bag lid came out and the lid was just held on by the piece of material that keeps it to the bag.
Anyone else had this issue?
I'm going to stop by the dealership and see if they have these in stock. I'm going to put lock-tite on them so this doesn't happen again.

 

I had it happen once on my 05. I bought bolts and lock nuts at a hardware store. Cost like 5 bucks to fix it.

 

........ once on my '05 also
..... i went to the dealer for the bolts/nuts & whattaya know..... it cost more

 

My left bag hinge mechanism spring broke. That's when I realized how loose the nuts were on both of my bag hinges. Locktited them all. That spring is a small pain to replace. Have to grind the hinge pin weld off to drive the pin out. Then I TIG'ed it back in place.

 

 

 

 

And keep them locked while riding. They may still wiggle apart but will at least stay on the bag / bike.

 

 

we've got 2 different conversations going on here. the op did not almost lose his entire bag so the convo about replacing dzus pins is not applicable. he almost lost his lid because the 5 little torx screws holding the hinge to the lid. they are supposed to come with a loctite patch on them, but i still add a dab myself. supposed to check them at every service....