Anyoe afraid to carry their bike to your local Harley Shop?
#81
02-07-2014 | 01:48 PM
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Some people don't have the time, patience, knowledge, or desire to work on their own bike. So they have to take the risk of allowing someone else do it. Whether it's at an indy or at a dealership, there are risks.
The last time my latest bike saw the dealership service bay was on the day I rode it home for the first time. That was 4 years ago. No Indy work either.
There is so much that can and will go wrong. From incompetent work to scratches and dents. Only the guy that paid the $20k+ really gives a damn about that motorcycle. Some of the techs could really give a **** less about it and generally approach it with an assembly line attitude.
Then you have the bottom-of-the-totem-pole morons with the pressure washers at the dealerships thinking they are doing you a big favor treating your new $20K+ bike like it's a damn submarine! I've seen it so many times. That wonderful pressure washer filling your electrical connectors with water, filling your wheel bearings with water, your gauges with water, what a deal! Then he starts scratching your clearcoat with some dirty-*** rag he has used on the last ten bikes as he daydreams through the whole process. The dealer seems to create issues faster than they can charge you $100+/hour to fix them.
Oh, almost forgot the normal replies: "They all do that", "They all sound like that", "They all ride like that", "They all feel like that", "That's normal", "I couldn't find anything wrong", "I don't feel anything wrong", "Are you using Harley oil?", etc., etc.
If you can find a good tech at a good dealership, then you are lucky and you had better hold on to him if you don't do your own work. Otherwise, you are "fresh meat" to the rest.
The last time my latest bike saw the dealership service bay was on the day I rode it home for the first time. That was 4 years ago. No Indy work either.
There is so much that can and will go wrong. From incompetent work to scratches and dents. Only the guy that paid the $20k+ really gives a damn about that motorcycle. Some of the techs could really give a **** less about it and generally approach it with an assembly line attitude.
Then you have the bottom-of-the-totem-pole morons with the pressure washers at the dealerships thinking they are doing you a big favor treating your new $20K+ bike like it's a damn submarine! I've seen it so many times. That wonderful pressure washer filling your electrical connectors with water, filling your wheel bearings with water, your gauges with water, what a deal! Then he starts scratching your clearcoat with some dirty-*** rag he has used on the last ten bikes as he daydreams through the whole process. The dealer seems to create issues faster than they can charge you $100+/hour to fix them.
Oh, almost forgot the normal replies: "They all do that", "They all sound like that", "They all ride like that", "They all feel like that", "That's normal", "I couldn't find anything wrong", "I don't feel anything wrong", "Are you using Harley oil?", etc., etc.
If you can find a good tech at a good dealership, then you are lucky and you had better hold on to him if you don't do your own work. Otherwise, you are "fresh meat" to the rest.
#82
02-07-2014 | 04:48 PM
Some people don't have the time, patience, knowledge, or desire to work on their own bike. So they have to take the risk of allowing someone else do it. Whether it's at an indy or at a dealership, there are risks.
The last time my latest bike saw the dealership service bay was on the day I rode it home for the first time. That was 4 years ago. No Indy work either.
There is so much that can and will go wrong. From incompetent work to scratches and dents. Only the guy that paid the $20k+ really gives a damn about that motorcycle. Some of the techs could really give a **** less about it and generally approach it with an assembly line attitude.
Then you have the bottom-of-the-totem-pole morons with the pressure washers at the dealerships thinking they are doing you a big favor treating your new $20K+ bike like it's a damn submarine! I've seen it so many times. That wonderful pressure washer filling your electrical connectors with water, filling your wheel bearings with water, your gauges with water, what a deal! Then he starts scratching your clearcoat with some dirty-*** rag he has used on the last ten bikes as he daydreams through the whole process. The dealer seems to create issues faster than they can charge you $100+/hour to fix them.
Oh, almost forgot the normal replies: "They all do that", "They all sound like that", "They all ride like that", "They all feel like that", "That's normal", "I couldn't find anything wrong", "I don't feel anything wrong", "Are you using Harley oil?", etc., etc.
If you can find a good tech at a good dealership, then you are lucky and you had better hold on to him if you don't do your own work. Otherwise, you are "fresh meat" to the rest.
The last time my latest bike saw the dealership service bay was on the day I rode it home for the first time. That was 4 years ago. No Indy work either.
There is so much that can and will go wrong. From incompetent work to scratches and dents. Only the guy that paid the $20k+ really gives a damn about that motorcycle. Some of the techs could really give a **** less about it and generally approach it with an assembly line attitude.
Then you have the bottom-of-the-totem-pole morons with the pressure washers at the dealerships thinking they are doing you a big favor treating your new $20K+ bike like it's a damn submarine! I've seen it so many times. That wonderful pressure washer filling your electrical connectors with water, filling your wheel bearings with water, your gauges with water, what a deal! Then he starts scratching your clearcoat with some dirty-*** rag he has used on the last ten bikes as he daydreams through the whole process. The dealer seems to create issues faster than they can charge you $100+/hour to fix them.
Oh, almost forgot the normal replies: "They all do that", "They all sound like that", "They all ride like that", "They all feel like that", "That's normal", "I couldn't find anything wrong", "I don't feel anything wrong", "Are you using Harley oil?", etc., etc.
If you can find a good tech at a good dealership, then you are lucky and you had better hold on to him if you don't do your own work. Otherwise, you are "fresh meat" to the rest.
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