Had the 6k service done tuesday. What an abortion!
Booked it in for 9am tuesday. Dropped it off as per plan, and picked up loan bike to go to the office. 4pm put my gear back on to ride back to pick it up, and the phone rings just as I put my helmet on
Pulled the lid of again and answered it.....Err hi! Can we keep the bike overnight....... I said sure, what's the problem??? Thinking they had found an unexpected problem. ......... Errr we have been short staffed and havn't finished it. ( Oil n filter n a go over! It's a minor service).
OK so I say no worries, I will pick it up Friday when I get back from Sydney then!.........Err no, we need our loan bike back.
..... So I said Fine..Come and get it!
All of a sudden they could now finish servicing my bike???? It get's better.
Picked it up and they had snapped a tank bolt, and cross threaded it????? So had to drill it out and now have to retap the thread and helicoil it!!!!!
But they didn't have time to fix it that day
It gets even better. I ride home and when I get home, I find oil on my boots....and on the cranckcases, and on the engine covers, and chain lube all over the ducktail, swingarm, wheel and had even spun around onto the tread of the rear tyre
I decide I had better check everything. Here's what I found.
1. When fitting the oil filter spilt a god awful amount of oil on the engine and didn't clean it off thus it had blown everywhere.
2. Did not do up the oil filler cap properly and it had also blown oil all over my jeans, boots, engine, swingarm, wheel!!!!
3. Had put SO much chain lube on, that it had spun around onto the tread of the tyre, and the hot lube had melted and was dripping down the engine cases and onto the road and my concrete when I got home.
4. Had not even adjusted the chain!
I have asked the service manager for the opportunity to either 1. insert a really rough pineapple up the arse of the complete idiot who serviced the bike. or 2. return the favour by perhaps applying a nice liberal coating of something nice and slippery to this guys tyres. Neither of which the service manager was real keen on I can tell you.
I have since tightened the oil filter by hand, same with the filler cap, used a full two (not kidding) cans of degreaser to remove the excess chain lube (I left enough to keep the chain lubed for at least a month), and adjusted the chain correctly.
What made me a little furious, and also at the same time relieved, was that I normally take the bike for a run through the hills on the way home. If I had it would have let go on the first left hander I had a dip in. As it was I just did the FWY commute back to the office.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me" Hunter S. Thompson.
There are really only two questions in life. 1.Which way do i go? 2.What is the lap record?
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