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01-08-2006, 11:04 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 11
|  Problem on a new bike?
Bought my new GS500 a week ago Thursday. During the prep process the service dept said they couldn't release the bike to me because it was a making a strange noise. Friday, after not hearing from them, I called late afternoon and they said I could come pick it up. They said the noise turned out to be nothing. I started driving the bike home and started to notice a metalic banging/clicking noise coming from the lower part of the engine or crankcase area. Since I had only gotten about two miles, I imediately turned around and went back to the service dept. They said don't worry about the noise and that the Suzuki reps would just tell me to put on about 250 miles and then get it checked out again. They said bring it back and they would do a courtesey check at 250 miles. Thusday, 6 days later with only 125 miles on it, I ran over a nail and had a slow leak so I took the bike back Thursday evening. I called Friday and Saturday and they said they fixed the flat tire but didn't know what was causing the noise and they wanted to get in touch with Suzuki to see if they could get approval to spend more time trying to figure out what was wrong. I have a 73 Chevy truck that is being restored so I needed something to get around. I was going to get a used car but figured a new bike would be more reliable. |
