Just an addendum to the Regulator issue; went to see local Yamaha delaer in Portim�o yesterday and got him to run FI diag' doodah and check connections on regulator. His view is that it won't be long before female connector from loom is burned out so he rang Yam' Portugal and Italy and asked for a solution.

Upshot is they recommend replacement of the whole loom +/- 500 euros, yeah right, then on the QT they told him best solution is to carefully remove all wires from connector block and solder each one directly on to the 8 regulator pins, protecting each connection with heat shrink cable sheath. This would supposedly avoid any future corrosion issues, get rid of a crap connector, be totally waterproofed and could be undone in the unlikely event of regulator failure.

I'd be interested in views/input on this before I let Dr Frankenstein run amok with the soldering iron.