Interesting, SOP through out the automotive world is that the service writer is a commission position- it is sales after all, suggesting services, parts and "those little extras" that quickly add up.

and these past 10 years, more and more Harley dealers are owned by powersports and automotive groups, so the SOP's trickle down.


Mike

 

A dealership's "job" is to make money and they can't if there's nothing wrong with your bike. So when you take it in for a "problem", it's in their best interest to "find one". Win-win for them.

But there could be something wrong with it...really.

 

one of the dealers I used to use worked that way, but I know this is how ours is. They are some of the few of our employees that are not commission.

 

I personally would not....I take it back, If I would be allowed to stand behind their senior tech while working on my bike then I might consider it

 

I switch my mufflers once in a while, just to even the color out...

 

funny, I do that with the disc stacks and end caps on my supertrapps

mike

 

i don't understand the question.. most of the exhaust comes out of the rite side. it will always have more soot build up. you could plug the left side off, and not notice much of a difference.

the last shop i worked at, everyone in service was paid hourly, except for the head tech. he liked to talk and screw off, they made him salary trying to get him to get more work done. i was the new guy, i usually brought home more money then him. he would always hold his check up in the air to look at it, i had the next bay.

the shop before that, me and the other tech were the wrench and writer. everyone there was hourly.

 

Funny, I also do this.... with my socks!!

 

Get a piece of 3/8" or 1/2" rubber hose about 1 ft. long (something like gas line) and stick one end up to your ear while running the other end around where you think the leak is. This will give you a stethoscope effect and you should be able to hear the leak. You also might feel some heat from a leak coming through the hose.

Bill