For a hundred bucks you could have bought the oils and filter + a shop manual and done it yourself. Now what do you have to show for it but some new oil and a very boring sit in the waiting room?
You "could" have gave yourself a pat on the back and a few beers doing it yourself, priceless..

 

One of the reasons I did not buy a RK when I went looking to replace the SG. There is no longer a grease fitting on the steering neck for the bearings. Thus, when I asked the service writer at the dealership where I bought the bike this past May if they really did all shown on the list for the 1K service and he responded yes, I knew darn good and well he was full of it.

 

Interesting that he didn't know the details of the bike - but not surprised

I thought they went with sealed bearings for the steering tube

 

Heres the issue, if you want an oil change that's one thing, if you want a 5k service that's another, you cannot compare apples to oranges, well clearly you can as that seems to be what the whiners are saying

 

Really wasn't aware that I was "whining" or doing anything but posing a question.

If you knew me and some of my circumstances you would be very hard pressed to call me a whiner.

 

You do have somewhat of a point. Just a straight filter and oil change the 1 time I paid to have it done it was "only" $85.45 with synthetic.

 

That was my entire point. The zerk fitting went away several years ago, along with having to adjust the primary chain, throttle cables, brake cables and, the clutch cable on the '14 Rushmore bikes. The lone exception being the Road King. Guess the MoCo figured that RK buyers eschewed the other modern conveniences we have on our glides so they get the old style fight with it clutch cable set up.

 

Also the shops cost of dealing with used chemicals etc, which can be very expensive.

If you thought the cost was too high, you should have told them up front and asked them to give you a more reasonable price. Seriously, you might be surprized at the answer, try this at the car dealership too, it works.

No, he did not steal.

The dealer was up front on the cost of the service.

Forget about the hour thing, that is just a number they use to assign cost, more than the mechanics time is factored in. Think of it as a unit of cost.

If he said he would charge 1.5 hours, and then after the work was done the cost was 3.0 hours, that would be stealing...

The dealers shouldn`t even mention hours, they should just say the job will cost xx amount of dollars, then you guys wouldn`t get in a tizzy over this hour thing.

Learn to do the work yourself or learn to like paying someone else to do it...

 

I'd estimate that it should take a couple hours...here's a link to the checklist:

http://www.surdyke.com/download/Serv.../touring5k.pdf

(brought to you from our friends at Surdyke HD)

 

It takes me about 2 hours doing the whole project start to finish, taking my time with a few beers. It's not surprising or unreasonable that the shop charges for 3 hours.