A friend recently sold his 2014 with 4k miles. He had a tuner he added after 2000 miles of riding with aftermarket ac and header. His piston is prolly burned 1/2 through. I would never buy a used bike with a tuner
I would think that with a true poll it would be nice to see all opinions
Reading this, could a reasonable person also make the arguement that the damage occurred prior to installing the tuner?
Thus making it the fault of running "aftermarket ac and header" with no tuner?
Reading this, could a reasonable person also make the arguement that the damage occurred prior to installing the tuner?
Thus making it the fault of running "aftermarket ac and header" with no tuner?
No a reasonable person could not. The MOCO spent millions figuring it out. My friend was told not to do the ac and exhaust unless he was either going to do a download or a tuner. He road with neither for over 2k miles.
Every one can believe as they want. I believe in the moco when it comes to engineering and specs for the motors they designed, researched and developed. Not a small aftermarket company. I have yet to be swayed otherwise when it comes to the 14s
I guess it could be a defective poll. But since I wasn't considering the dealer download I didn't think to include. I avoid dealers...
Already interesting that 1/3 of people just leave stock?
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The reason my guess would be because a Harley is expensive to begin with, and most in this group will wait before doing mods.
Reading this, could a reasonable person also make the arguement that the damage occurred prior to installing the tuner?
Thus making it the fault of running "aftermarket ac and header" with no tuner?
Originally Posted by jcapps
No a reasonable person could not. The MOCO spent millions figuring it out. My friend was told not to do the ac and exhaust unless he was either going to do a download or a tuner. He road with neither for over 2k miles.
jcapps, it appears you might have made SafetyMan's argument for him here. Your friend was told NOT to run it without either A) the dealer download or B) a tuner if he had the A/C and exhaust, but if I am reading this correctly, he DID run it that way for over 2K miles creating a much leaner condition that stock. That could very well have caused some damage prior to the tuner it seems to me.
jcapps, it appears you might have made SafetyMan's argument for him here. Your friend was told NOT to run it without either A) the dealer download or B) a tuner if he had the A/C and exhaust, but if I am reading this correctly, he DID run it that way for over 2K miles creating a much leaner condition that stock. That could very well have caused some damage prior to the tuner it seems to me.
Point is he could have done the moco download and been done. But after 2k miles he bought a tuner (no names) and struggled with it for at least 500 miles and then all it did was fart, spit and decal pop till he sold the bike
No thanks I will stick with the dealer download.......................for now