Riding mode button not working, Menu button working one of ten times

Kiwicol said:

Sunny, you say the buttons are now buggered? How can they wear out so fast? This is a real issue for this bike if the handle bar buttons are crapping out at such a young age.

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sunny said:

Though triumph says we can ride the bike in rain but if water touches those *outside* buttons then plastic get dust/dirt/residue in it and it makes it hard to press/toggle etc, and then we put more force to use button and the tiny switch cant handle it and look at this green encircled button which got screwed up because I pressed hard and put basically every type of lube to make it work without opening at first thinking that it will help but nothing helped as the rubber surface of white button is not there where it takes force of outside plastic button and press the button.
those rubber buttons can not handle too much presser, if you see the button data sheet, they need only 160GF of force to work
( 160 gf (gram-force) is a unit of force equal to 0.160 grams multiplied by the standard acceleration due to gravity (9.80665 m/s²). )



even if you decide to cover it while washing bike, how will you mitigate the dust going inside the main outside buttons visible while riding, one day it will get hard, rough.

then we put spray in it,

the spray we put doesnt work on plastics and breaks the rubber integrity on the actual little button on the circuit board

then we put some other stuff, which doesnt help and makes it worse.

The problem is on both sides, outside plastic to plastic friction, if outside button gets rough then you press more and inside gets screwed up,
if you put lube it doesnt help either, because if you put lube which can affect the white rubber you have to open the assembly, replace switch or get new one

I tried 3 different brands very costly (50USD each for 50grams of spray)electric contract cleaners and sprayed the hell out of switch cube in it before taking pain to open it and find parts and solder it etc. too much work


i suggest to through my post again, I linked earlier.

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Journeyman said:

I remember reading your original post about your switches and read what you have here, but if it's just water (happened right after washing), and not wear, then I think he has a shot at a fix.

If the buttons are physically damaged, as you seem confident they are, then of course no amount of spray will fix that. At this point there is no way to know for sure what's happening without seeing his photos of his switches dismantled.

Not discounting what you're saying, just think there could be more than one explanation. I'm at 40K miles on the 3R, so maybe needing new switches soon myself...

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Kiwicol said:

Thanks for the explanation Sunny. Looks like just keeping the outer buttons clean and grit free will assist their life span.

If you were going to use a spray perhaps use Silicone spray as that shouldn't affect rubber on the insides. I can see how electric contact cleaner would be detrimental to some of those components. I used contact cleaner once on my chart plotter cable, the O ring swelled to 2-3 times it's original size! I'll never again use that stuff where rubber type items are.

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