So today I get home & notice my cruise control wouldn't light up so I start to hunt for the reason the fuse keeps blowing. Check the dash, no issues pull the fairing & notice the fairing bracket on the left side is snapped!

Thankfully easternperformance.com is running a small sale on the alloy art, looks like I'm down a few days till they get here.

 

Im not sure if you have a batwing, but that happened on my sons Streetglide. He bought the new HD brackets that appeared to be of better quality than the oem ones, check youre threaded inserts for being buggered up. After the bracket breaks the only thing holding part of the fairing on is the fairing screws to the inner fairing and the wiring harness stuff. Havent looked at eastern performance yet on these

 

Its a batwing, trust me I was going through everything because I have a ground-out in the cruise control so thinking something got pulled from the vibration.

 

Would help if you had what model and year of bike your talking about...

 

Awhile back I had my batwing fairing break at the top of the bracket. I just purchased the repair kit off of amazon and a few minutes of drilling and a beer it was repaired.

Much easier than replacing the whole bracket and they claim it is stronger than OEM.

 

Check them all closely. When one goes it leaves a lot of stress on the others. I had 3 broken in my fairing. I used a couple angle brackets from Home Depot to repair the main ones. Probably about a $3 fix. The ones by the speakers I replaced with new ones that were much stronger than the originals.

 

I had a Batwing bike back in 2006 and those fairing brackets were a know weak link in the fairing design. Many riders were having to replace or repair them. Glad to see the MoCo has once again failed to upgrade or fix a know faulty item. Cheap-*** bastards they are....

 

One of my vertical brackets broke at top i used stainless kit by Dan Ragan. Worked great without replacing bracket.

www.raganfabworks.com

 

Buddies 09 streetglide just had same issue, dealership replaced everything under warranty. You might check with your local dealer.

 

I did a DIY fix much like the Amazon kit and it held to about 60k miles, but then the right vertical bracket broke in the middle. No fix for that, so that meant replacing it and I decided to go with the new HD design, which looked robust enough for the job. The OEM for 2007 and several years thereafter were very weak but the new versions look up to the task. Time will tell on the verticals, but the new-style horizontal brackets have held up well for several years now.