Well, I have some sympathy for you pal. I´ve been stuck in Norway once when an indicator on my Africa Twin indicated that I had low voltage in the battery and the loading current proved to be ok with 13,x V. I ended up shelling out 150 Euros for a new battery, throwing away a perfect, one-year-old battery when I later found out that the indicator thing, which many AT riders here buy from a chap in Switzerland who makes those, just effed up in rain and indicated crap.
The bad thing I guess was in your case to take matters in your own hand ordering the part on your cost, instead of having the repair shop find out on its cost that the replacement part was not needed and thus they could not bill you for it. I´m not sure whether there is much difference in metering out a CAN bus harness vs. a conventional harness. Knowing your bike inside out makes the difference if the crap hits the fan out there in far-far-away-land, and relying on repair shops will in many cases just not do good. In your case I´d try to work out a solution with the supplier of the part you had shipped and shipped back, probably ending up eating what I ordered, take the hit and ride on.
Safe travels
Chris
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