Honda GL1500 Goldwing Chrome Front Lower Cowl

I loved the new look. I am adding a little chrome at a time and this was a great addition to my baby.

My stock Lower Cowl was hit and broken. It was not usable again. I bought the Crome Lower Cowl. I could not make it fit like the stock one. I broke two of the tabs on the excisiting body panels trying to make it fit. I had to enlarge and disfigue the 3 screw holes just to get it half way into position. A lot of the tabs do not line up or meet with the rest of the body panels. The crowl does not alien with the body panels. I have spent 35 years in a career repairing older houses and mechanical objects so I'm not a beginner working with problem repairs. This is very poor reproduction piece. I am very, very disappointed with the product. I wish I had not bought it.

It looks great on my bike, a 1999 SE. I was afraid of it looking over-chromed with the cowl installed but it looks great!

However.....installation wasn't as simple as unscrewing the old cowl and screwing the new one on. Several tabs had to be removed with a Dremel tool to get the chrome cowl to fit flush against the lower fairing. The center screw hole didn't line up, even after fully slotting the mounting hole. The two remaining screws, along with the other fairing panels, hold the cowl firmly in place but just a little more effort in engineering/production would make this the much simpler installation that it should be.

Compliments the chrome rotor covers & improves the look of the bike. Installation was not smooth. The new cowl did not match the stock cowl and subsequently, I needed to use a dremel tool to remove two extra tabs to allow the three screws to line-up. I can only speculate that different year 1500 GW might need an alteration so beware of this frustration.

Really adds a touch of class!