Well mine went out @ a little over 24K ,this is the dealings behind it . Fri Oct 30th got the bike out for a little ride ,noticed it kinda hesitated a little starting . Cranked her up let her warm up a little ,then for a ride around town ,and such for about 3 hours .Got back to the house ,shut her down to cool off so I could wash it . Well after the cool down period and washing it, got ready to start it back up and back in the garage.Hit the starter and what do you know ,would not start !!!!!! Decided not to fool with it anymore until the next morning .
Next morning rolled around tried to start it again,nothing . Decided to put a battery charger on for a while . Finally got her to crank ,decided to ride it up to the local Dealership and see what was going on . OK got to the dealership and rode it into the maint bay and shut her down . Told the service writer what the prob was ,and was told no one was there to look at it being it was Saturday !!!!.(Give me a break) could not believe this !!! So...... was told it would be Tuesday before they would know anything . Well tues rolls around and I recieve a phone call ,from the dealership telling me my battery was fried . Ok ,but did you check the charging system ??? Ah......no we need a battery (good ) to check it out . Told them ok ,fine . Well recieve another phone call about 2 hours later ,was told that my (stater or Stator ) was fried ,and it would be week for them to get one . I was looking at about 2 weeks before getting it back !!!! OH
(EDIT) NO ,that is not going to get it !!!! Asked if the called around to the other dealers in the area ,to inquire as to if they had one . Yep !!! sure did !!!! .Was told that the other dealerships in the area didn't really like getting parts from them ,HMMMM. OK ,maybe this was true,but had to find out myself . Called a dealer about 50 miles from me and asked about a stator ,nope didn't have one my our sister dealership shows to have one . Alright cool ,lets get this thing going . Called the sister dealership and yes, in fact they did have one . Called back the dealership who had my bike and told them what I had found ,was then told that along with the Stator being bad . The voltage regulator was also bad ,(which they had in stock ) and it also needed a rotor . I had enough,hung up and called back to talk to the GM ,told him about what the hell had been going on ,he told me he would check it out and call me back . OK ,called be back and told me that he was going to order the parts ,and have them overnighted and would have my bike back no later than this coming Fri. He also said that he would eat the overnight charge ,which was fine with me . Just wanted to know why someone who worked for him ,would out and out "LIE" to a customer ?? No Reply,go figure . Thank God for the ESP!!!!!
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