RE: 12,000 mi. tune-up?

["Retherford, Martin" <MRetherford@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,
	Are they changing the chain?  And fork oil as well?
	If they are that may add significant cost to the work.  ! am almost
at 14,000 miles and it is time for a new chain.  Tell them to use a stiffer
oil in the forks if you are scrapping your belly panels in turns like some
of the other folks on the list.

Martin

- -----Original Message-----
From: jim schroeder [mailto:cretin@xxxxxxx]
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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