Bandit Alley
REGIONAL FORUMS => AUS/NZ => Topic started by: aussiebandit on December 03, 2006, 03:26:16 AM
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I've previously given praise to Frontline - one of the local bike shops. I'm now retracting the recommendation. I asked them to check the KLR over properly before I bought it. They gave it a clean bill of health saying "Good buy, put a deposit on it now before he sells it to someone else".
Well since putting the motard rims on we've discovered that the steering head bearings are not healthy and the front left axle nut has obviously seen the tarmac up close and personnel. During the Toy Run it became real obvious that the thermostat is either the wrong one, set wrong or just plain dead. The poor KLR started to overheat and there was no sign of the fan comming on. Then after the toy run we noticed that one of the two throttle cables was snapped - closer inspection showed that both are not healthy. Not at all happy, and 'The Eldest' is really pissed because I've told him he's not to ride it until we can get the Thermostat and throttle cables fixed.
A real big thumbs down to Frontline.... :annoy:
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Mick, Your `sale of Goods Act' should cover all that crap - have a go :shock:
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Sales of goods is all well and good when the guy who tell's you the bike is "all good" is the bloke who sold it to you.....
But in this case, it was an independant mechanic/bike shop that simply didn't do their job properly.
the bloke who sold it to me said nothing about the bike being in a particular state of repair - he simply said that for the time he owned it he'd never had a problem....ofcoarse that doesn't actually mean anything.
As for going to the 'small claims' etc etc, I can actually do more 'damage' to the shop by telling everyone in Wagga how f'ing bad they are, and how they missed what turned out to be fairly obvious problems, had the actually bothered to put the bike on a stand and actually look at it.
The KLR is now with another dealer that I trust slightly more - they've never actually f**ked up on a service, they have taken their sweet time about it, but never actually pharked up.
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Good luck Mate
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garages and mechanics that rip people off and dont do there jobs properly really piss me off!!
ive been a mechanic for 18 years and actually left my last job because i was being asked to "limit" spending on one cardealers cars because they were having a quite spell ..... ie turn a blind eye to faults !! that f...ed me off so i got another job and left ..if you do the job right you only have to do it once !!
you do right to diss them they deserve it ,twats !!
mick :beers:
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Hey Madmick, you sound like the sort of person we need in NZ - any good with bikes? :banana:
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been messing around with bikes since i was 9 so i know a bit !! do all my own work on my b6 and a have a gsxr400 73a which takes alot of looking after !!pmsl (tempremental bugger !!) basically if its got an engine i'l have a go !!
mick :beers: