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Gedrick
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Joined: Aug 2021
Posts: 1
Bike: Suzuki DL650X
Location: Doncaster
water getting into hard luggage
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October 21, 2021, 18:49:22 »
I am a new member to the group. I have a 2014 DL650 with Suzuki hard panniers. I have just done a long trip to Scotland and as you will understand we had a lot of the wet stuff. on arrival there was about 2 cup full of water in both panniers.
Any advice would be welcome.
Thanks Gedrick
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Mark Shelley
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Joined: Jul 2016
Posts: 564
Bike: GW250 SV650N
Location: Cambridgeshire
Re: water getting into hard luggage
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October 21, 2021, 21:42:30 »
Welcome.
Don’t go to Scotland.
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UK_Vstrom650
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 6715
Bike: DL650A L2
Re: water getting into hard luggage
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October 21, 2021, 23:19:57 »
Leaking luggage can be a pain to diagnose.
The easiest solution is to wrap your contents in waterproof liners/roll bags.
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Gert
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Joined: Sep 2015
Posts: 2363
Bike: DL650 K5 Blue, DL650 K6 Red
Location: South Africa
Re: water getting into hard luggage
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October 22, 2021, 07:29:48 »
While not a solution for diagnosing the pannier leak, you could consider drilling a small drain hole at the lowest point of the panniers. This should allow for the drainage of any collected water, in the pannier box, as well as making use of plastic garbage bag or similar to keep things inside the pannier dry. Have you had a look at the thread
https://www.v-strom.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=34126.0
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mr_diver
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Re: water getting into hard luggage
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October 22, 2021, 15:54:45 »
It depends which Suzuki hard luggage you speak of.
The plastic stuff was rebadged Hepco and Becker and was fairly waterproof.
The Metal stuff was made by Trax (SW Motech) and not meant to be waterproof and Suzuki sold over priced (again rebadged) SW motech inner dry bags.
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InvictaMoto
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Joined: Jul 2021
Posts: 82
Bike: Suzuki DL1000X L8, Suzuki GT750A
Location: Hythe Kent
Re: water getting into hard luggage
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October 23, 2021, 12:00:07 »
I had the same problem with the Touratech Zega panniers I had fitted to my 1150GS. In the end I started putting all my gear in Tesco "bags for life" and all was well. They are waterproof and very cheap.
Oddly, the leak packed up about the same time!
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