RANT on.
OK am a little (EDIT) off the paint on my front fender is bubbling and on the rear fender it is coming away from the metal like the metal was never prepared for paint. Now my bike is still under warranty and the dealer told me flat out that rust does not fall under warranty. Now I can understand the spokes and chrome items being hard to keep from rusting. But painted parts should not be an issue. Even the Mechanic told me that this is an issue will all HD models since they changed the paint process to use some kind of water based product with the 06 model. So now I am in a battle to get my fenders taken care of with the dealer and MOCO. How is it that a rice rocket that is never taken care of has no issues with paint but my HD that is was and taken care of is having issues. If not taken care of it looks like I will be dismantling a new bike to get all painted parts blasted, prepared and painted correctly.
Rant off
Tony
OK am a little (EDIT) off the paint on my front fender is bubbling and on the rear fender it is coming away from the metal like the metal was never prepared for paint. Now my bike is still under warranty and the dealer told me flat out that rust does not fall under warranty. Now I can understand the spokes and chrome items being hard to keep from rusting. But painted parts should not be an issue. Even the Mechanic told me that this is an issue will all HD models since they changed the paint process to use some kind of water based product with the 06 model. So now I am in a battle to get my fenders taken care of with the dealer and MOCO. How is it that a rice rocket that is never taken care of has no issues with paint but my HD that is was and taken care of is having issues. If not taken care of it looks like I will be dismantling a new bike to get all painted parts blasted, prepared and painted correctly.
Rant off
Tony
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