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05-13-2007, 09:11 PM
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| Where Am I ?  Join Date: May 2007
Bike: Kawa Vulcan 900
Location: Lincoln, NE
Posts: 26
|  600 Mile Service?
Just bought a VN900 (awesome bike). Went through the usual rigmarole with the dealer: You should really pay the $1500+ extra for an extended service plan, yada, yada, yada, that 600-mile service can be $375-$400 all by itself because of the valve adjustment, etc., it's really a good deal, we sell a lot of them...and on and on. I said no for a number of reasons, some of them discussed in other posts related to the whole question of extended warranties. So I look in the manual, and it says you don't even need to inspect the valves until 15K miles. Nonetheless, I'd imagine that the 600-mile service is important; I'd certainly never skip it, but I'm not too excited about paying $400 either! Do y'all (sorry, I spent a couple of years in Texas) think it's OK to go to another bike shop? There's a good one in town and they've never steered me wrong on anything; they've even turned down chances to sell me stuff they thought I didn't really need. (They're not a dealer, just a small independent shop, but they definitely seem to know what they're doing.) If they told me they needed to adjust my valves, I'd believe 'em. On the other hand, I haven't bought a bike brand new off the showroom floor since...hmmm, well, around 1971 or so. If it really needs to go to the dealer, I'd definitely grit my teeth and do it. |
