OK thanks.
We now know that the mechanism of the adaptive part of the headlight works.
All you need to do now is establish what part of the light do not work ie:
A. Is it the bulb / burner / LED (or whatever it’s called).
B. The trigger mechanism that lights item A.
C. Something else in or on the bike that is preventing B from working and therefore affecting A.
Depeneding on the answer, then establishing whether the cure to A, B, C is ‘easy’ (ie cheap and not taking too long) or ‘hard’ (ie expensive and not possible without replacing several parts, right up to the full headlight unit).
As this is a GS centric forum and there’s no other posts on the topic in this section that I can find, the best solution might be to:
1. Ask / search on the 1600 forum. See post #15.
2. Ask the dealership you spoke to to clarify further.
3. Ask a second opinion of another dealership.
4. Start to take the lot apart yourself.
5. Live with the failed adaptive part and the warning light, neither of them being life threatening. This might bring about an MOT failure; I don’t know.
6. Sell the bike to some poor unsuspecting soul, relieving yourself of the problem at a stroke.
PS Did you ever solve your water carrying problem?
https://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/265641-Carrying-Water/page2
