That’s from the Black Book Powersports. Seems like it’s pretty accurate on the trade in value but I can never find anything retailing for what they say.
I am considering purchasing a 2015 Electra Glide Ultra Limited. Nice clean bike, the owner has had ALL the recommended scheduled stuff done like clock work, has all the paperwork I did a general search of "Problems with the Bike in a search, like water pump issues, fork seal issues, drive belt issues, brake issues, everything I asked about, he had already had those issues repaired.
I test rode the bike today, felt nice, rides a straight line, almost popped a wheelie taking off. My main concern is that its only 5 yrs old, but has 51,000 miles on it. Should I be worried? No matter what year bike you have, please share with me how many years you have had your bike and the mileage. Will this engine hit 100,000 miles easily?
With the documented maintenance and repair history you can verify, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it, if I liked it..
If you maintain it as well as the prior owner, and don't drive it like a teenager, I would be willing to bet it will go over 100K miles without major issues...
Bought my 2015 Limited in May 2015, and now with 70,752 miles on her, I just grin every time I ride her. I love my bike, and for me, it has enough power to do everything I want it to do. The only major problem I had was a new water pump around 32,000 in Colorado replaced under warranty. The boom box failed around 20K miles and a new one was installed under warranty. The heated grips failed but replaced under warranty, and probably some other minor stuff that I can't remember, but this has been a good bike. Here she is loaded up for a cross country trip.
And the gear indicator moves from left to right on the bottom of the speedometer so even if you are vision impaired, you can tell what gear just by looking at the position of the light. You have to have the clutch released to see the gear indicator though.
looking at 2015. If I had all those problems,not sure I would call it good,just warranty covered it.
Name a brad of vehicle that has never had to use the warranty. HD is not perfect, but none of the big Vtwin cruisers has been able to claim their owners never have to use a warranty.
Before I bought mine, I looked at the Japanese cruisers, and was shocked at how many had similar transmission woes. Problems like second or third gear self destructing, and usually just out of warranty. All of those had a single case design (trans enclosed in crankcase) and I had no desire to buy a bike that I had to try to split the cases on, someday down the road.
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