RE: 12,000 mi. tuneup?

["Rick Damiani" <rickd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your dealer is Pro Italia, right? I like going there, but I cannot see
paying their service rate, nor do I see the value of some of the 12,000 mile
checks (especially changeing the fork oil) on a 5 month old bike, so I did
my 12,000 mile maintenance myself [1]. You can buy a lot of tools for
$600.00. BTW, my valves were all spot-on for this one (14,300 miles).


[1] Well, I still need to let them adjust the CO level and check the ECM,
but that ain't going to cost $600.00!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of jim
> schroeder
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 7:00 PM
> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 12,000 mi. tuneup?
>
>
> Hey Folks,
> Pushing 12,000mi. and wondering what your dealers have quoted you
> for a tune-up?
> Mine said $550 to $650! Seems very extreme, but the manager says
> Sable will be on
> the rack for 6 or 7 hours! Does this mean that as long as my bike
> is in their
> shop, I'm paying the employees to walk around it or what??? It
> couldn't, by any
> stretch of the imagination, take that long to perform the
> operations required.
> I'm kinda jaded, as my 6,000 mi. was done by a guy during my trip
> to Canada.  He
> charged me $140 for labor, parts,brakes, and oil were another $100, so he
> basically did everything involved with a 12,000 (including
> digital readouts and
> valve shimming) that my dealer is capable of! Yes, he builds
> Triumph race bikes
> for the Seattle area, but besides that, his family is awesome!! I
> need some input
> from the SoCal area. Is Orange County cheaper? How about Ventura?
>                                 Ride safely and often,
>                                                         Jim
>
> '99 ST "Sable" You guess the color !
>
>
>
>
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