With all the posts about hot legs I thought I would post my findings after I installed a fan bypass switch. Today my phone claims the outside temp is 75 degrees and I ran my Outlander about 10 miles in traffic, stop lights as well as a few stop signs. Starting out I got about 3 city blocks before my water temp read 195 degrees and I flipped on my fan, within 2 city blocks my temp was down to 175 degrees. I left the fan on the rest of the time and my temp floated from 170 to 180 degrees depending on my speed which was mostly around 20 mph or setting at a stop light. I found that between the lower temp and air circulation that the plastics don’t get near as hot or maintain there heat. My fan kicks on at 200 degrees and off at 197 by itself so there isn’t a whole lot of air movement or cooling effect in general.

Here is a good video that shows how to do the mod.

wire colors on my 2015 Outlander Max XT 1000 are brown with a white stripe for the top right wire looking at front of fuse block and brown with red stripe wire for the botton left looking at them from front of machine and fuse block. The brown with red stripe wire is actually a jumper wire that comes out of the middle of the fuse block and heads back into the fan relay fuse. I wanted to try this mod before I got to carried away so I just used a couple quick crimps to splice a couple wires into the above listed wires then ran them to a switch located in the plastic piece below the handlebars.

Fan switch is switch on the left side of the voltmeter.