Where does this screw go?

[Drake]

My 2023 v85tt with 9k mi deposited this screw on the ground below the kickstand/foot peg. I heard it ding on the skid plate on the way to the ground.

It is a 4x12 with a size 20 Torx head as best as I can measure. I've looked through the exploded views online and haven't seen that size anywhere.

Does anyone have an idea about where it could be from?

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[Lovey]

Could it be an M5 size? If so, there's a few of them scattered around the bike as per this parts diagram.
cadrecycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021-V85TT-PARTS.pdf

 

[scottmastrocinque]

As it is a torx head screw, it will be in a location not intended to be remove normally. Perhaps a bracket holding something like a relay or other such thing.

 

[Drake]

Could it be an M5 size? If so, there's a few of them scattered around the bike as per this parts diagram.
cadrecycle.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021-V85TT-PARTS.pdf

That was my frustration as I too found some M5. It's definitely a 4 which I couldn't find on any diagram. And my trying to find a missing screw on the bike was even more frustrating.

 

[Lovey]

@Drake try Part 12 on page 76, that's an M4 by the looks of it and It's in a pretty random spot too.

 

[Drake]

@Drake try Part 12 on page 76, that's an M4 by the looks of it and It's in a pretty random spot too.

You're thinking the screw for the license plate lighting?

 

[V700Steve]

Try going to look at what you have had apart. Bolts usually don't unscrew on their own.

 

[john zibell]

Try going to look at what you have had apart. Bolts usually don't unscrew on their own.

Or look for a hole that doesn't have a screw in it!

 

[Chris Wilson]

I have had debris flick up from the road before and perhaps it's not even from your own vehicle.
Just a thought......

 

[H674]

On the V7 850 the plastic battery retainer is attached to the frame with 2 Torx screws. You might check that location on your 85TT.

 

[9mary7]

Lord knows a dealer "technician" could have dropped it down inside the bike during the PDI......

 

[Lovey]

You're thinking the screw for the license plate lighting?

LOL, sorry about that. I just searched the parts diagram for Torx and that was one that popped up in the correct size. I honestly didn't pay too much attention to which part it was, my apologies .

 

[scottmastrocinque]

Does anyone have an idea about where it could be from?

Yes.

There is the very real possibility, as all Moto Guzzi motorcycles are hand built in the same room since 1921, that during assembly, it fell out of the hands of the assembler and into the mostly assembled motorcycle someplace that wasn’t readily visible. They would not waste time looking for it.

It simply could have finally freed itself enough to fall away.

It is hard to see in your photo but it appears to be pretreated with a locking compound. If so, and there is no damage to that coating, then the screw was never inserted anywhere and is almost certainly as I have postulated here.