What are these brackets for?

[Peter Aawen]

I dunno, I thought that the 'hunt' for their purpose is well & truly over. As has been pointed out earlier, the brackets are for the remote battery terminal block on the 2013 Spyders.

2013 was the year that saw the last significant changes to the frame; before then, the battery was under the seat so there was no need for those brackets & they aren't on the earlier models. But along came 2013 & the new frame with those posts/brackets, which were put there to hold the remote battery terminals, basically so you didn't have to open up the battery case that's down in the depths of the frunk. The brackets are located under the black cover under the trailing edge of the frunk lid just below the LH headlight (ie, in the top of the frunk below the headlight that's in front of the Spyder ahead of a seated rider's left knee - they're on the opposite side to where the frunk light & the 'frunk still open' micro switch is located!)

I don't know why the 1330 RT Spyders after 2013 didn't get those remote battery terminals/posts, but that is what that bracket held, and the frame hasn't had any significant changes since, and without any significant frame changes needed, every RT Spyder since 2013 still scored the brackets! Simples!

[zuni]

I dunno, I thought that the 'hunt' for their purpose is well & truly over. As has been pointed out earlier, the brackets are for the remote battery terminal block on the 2013 Spyders.

2013 was the year that saw the last significant changes to the frame; before then, the battery was under the seat so there was no need for those brackets & they aren't on the earlier models. But along came 2013 & the new frame with those posts/brackets, which were put there to hold the remote battery terminals, basically so you didn't have to open up the battery case that's down in the depths of the frunk. The brackets are located under the black cover under the trailing edge of the frunk lid just below the LH headlight (ie, in the top of the frunk below the headlight that's in front of the Spyder ahead of a seated rider's left knee - they're on the opposite side to where the frunk light & the 'frunk still open' micro switch is located!)

I don't know why the 1330 RT Spyders after 2013 didn't get those remote battery terminals/posts, but that is what that bracket held, and the frame hasn't had any significant changes since, and without any significant frame changes needed, every RT Spyder since 2013 still scored the brackets! Simples!

Valid argument but why are they on a different model that wasn't made until two years after? They exist on both my F3s and F3t series as well.

CJ Jax

[Peter Aawen]

Valid argument but why are they on a different model that wasn't made until two years after? They exist on both my F3s and F3t series as well.

CJ Jax

They are on all the Spyder models made after 2013 - BRP haven't changed the frame significantly since then so instead of making a fairly expensive design & tooling change just to delete a couple of superfluous brackets, they are still there & all models get them! This is something that happens a whole lot in the automotive industry & many other industries that manufacture similar things, & BRP isn't any different or doing anything different to all the other manufacturers in this, they are saving the $$ by not making needless changes until there's a big enough reason to actually make the change worthwhile! I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were other brackets somewhere on the frame that aren't still being used as well....