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Vision Mods from Across the PondPart 4: LUGGAGE LID ALIGNMENT
The left lid alignment on the loaned bike wasn't too bad so I just left it - heck, it wasn't my bike anyhow, although I did touch up some serious gouges that a careless journalist had made in it. However, misalignment on my new bike was around 3/8" - probably as bad as it gets.  I've read the 'easy-fix' posts about adding washers behind the rearward hinge but it seems that the factory had already tried that with two washers on the rearward hole and one on the forward hole in an attempt to 'twist' the hinge and thus the lid into alignment. It didn't work. So, I removed the lid and investigated a little deeper.
The rear luggage lid bracket has two threaded bushes at the bottom that accept the hinge bolts. Upon reassembling the bracket to the hinge (without the lid attached) is was obvious, on my bike at least, that the two bushes fouled the inner plastic molding in the 'closed' position thus preventing full travel of the hinge. Adding spacing washers only made it worse. First job was to make the hinge and bracket work properly throughout the whole range of travel. Mods were required to both the bracket and the inner plastic molding around the hinge.
There's plenty of 'meat' on the bottom of the bracket so I ground away 3mm from the bottom edge of the bracket, chamfered off the lower corner of the bushes and repainted it.
 I also used my Dremel to grind away some of the plastic material on the inner panel to make even more clearance around the bottom of the bracket in it's closed position.
The upshot of these mods is that the lid is now closing in its natural position with no distortion from the ill-fitting hinge and bracket except for the hinge distortion made by having uneven spacing washers behind it. There has been an improvement to the panel fit but it's still not perfect. I still maintain that the lid panel has been manufactured to a slightly different curvature than it's mating part so the rear of the lid must be made to 'pull' inward more.
Part 5: GPS MOUNT & POWER
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