2008 1200 Sport Gauge cluster quest.

[Huzo]

My old 2005 Breva had a misting dash and I read all of Motos sound work on the matter

In the end I went a different way after I discovered that one of the vents in the back was blocked either by flash from the moulding process or by design - I don't know. I do know though, that a second dash I got to cannibalise for the LCD had the same issue

However, once I unblocked the vent the misting problem went away

It might be worth checking for blocked vents (sucking on them individually works) and dealing with them as breaking into the dash is definitely doable, but not for the feint hearted

I might have just been lucky, but the conformal coating certainly wont hurt once you get in

I’ve been lucky so far with my ‘07 Norge.
A small amount of misting on about three occasions, but generally no issues. I did wonder at one point if I could fit a small tube into the cluster and face it forward under the tank, in an area of incoming airflow.
Also a second hole for eflux of incoming air.
I never did get around to it because I hadn’t needed to...(yet).

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

So all very interesting solutions.
Was wondering however...... Are all the dash assemblies on the 2008 1200 Sport the same build ( I think someone had mentioned that the first generation units were more liable to vail compared to the later gen ones? )
Also are the failures directly proportional to exposure to direct water contact (ie. riding in the rain ect ) or other?
The reason I'm asking is it appears there are 2008 Sports out there with big mileage with the original factory dash happily running and working correctly??

Ciao

You might be on to something here, the rates of failure are very skewed to Sport 1200 (white face) dashes, and much more rare on Brevas and Norges (black face)

I have an early production breva, only had one dash hiccup (flashers came on in heavy rain and would not turn off- killing the power and restarting cleared the issue), but otherwise 23k miles and no issues. I do have a spar NIB dash I got with my bike from PO and I have luckily never had to take it out of the bubble wrap.