5K service for a Suzuki VL250 for $450?

[The Baron]

Whats this 5k service? Is it not - 1k - 6k - 12k - 18k etc? Just seems a bit keen or is it in the handbook?

[miloking]

Hey guys,

Rang up the place where I bought my VL250 a year ago as it was due for its 5k service. The quote they gave me was $450 which covered "service + WOF". My bike is under warranty for a few years yet, so I have to use an authorized Suzuki dealer. Is what Coleman's charging me too expensive? Have I been had? Are there better alternatives?

My bike is going in tomorrow morning so who ever is trolling around - let me know.

Cheers.

Man the fuck up and service it yourself!... especialy if you are student!

get online manual and check what needs to be done for each service period and you will save tons of money(obviously)...also if you keep receipts for the parts(oil/filter) and dont fuck it up it wont affect the warranty (like realy, no matter what bullshit will dealer try to tell you)

But if you do decide to go and get shafted for half a grand (i bet that quoted 450 is without GST) , get printed out detailed reciept and question anything out of ordinary....2 hours labour max + oil (about 3L) + filter (about $18) + inspection of few things

(here is a schedule for my CBR, and as you can see 4K mile and even 8K mile service is fuck all to do just oil change and some "I"s for "inspection" of few things...)

Also..DONT TRUST dealers they are dodgey as hell..(or as mentioned on another thread they are thieving cunts)

[Lurch]

Man the fuck up and service it yourself!... especialy if you are student!

Hell yeah, listen to this guy!

If you're a student you don't have to worry about the 2 year manufacturer warranty, as if anything ever goes wrong with a motocycle anyway! There's a fair chance that Suzuki would feel sorry for you as a student and sort any possible claim out regardless of wether you did the first oil change or not! I know a guy who knows a guy who read a service manual for one of these once and he'd be glad to sort you out for your 24,000k service and do the valve clearances etc too.

/sarcasm off

[miloking]

Hell yeah, listen to this guy!

If you're a student you don't have to worry about the 2 year manufacturer warranty, as if anything ever goes wrong with a motocycle anyway! There's a fair chance that Suzuki would feel sorry for you as a student and sort any possible claim out regardless of wether you did the first oil change or not! I know a guy who knows a guy who read a service manual for one of these once and he'd be glad to sort you out for your 24,000k service and do the valve clearances etc too.

/sarcasm off

Its a fricken VL250 not a space fuking shuttle! it has like 3 moving parts in it! Also its not his first oil change...it should have had first at 1K.
You guys are bunch of sorry as excuse for "bikers" pussies...cant even change oil and check tyre pressure yourself (i bet you are the type that gets gas station attendants to pump your gas and wash your windscreen too when you are driving your toyota prius to local cafe on a "drizzly" day)
Tell you what bring it here and i will get my granny to do oil change on your bikes (she has some time between baking a cakes and knitting)
What has this world come too....

[dipshit]

My bike is under warranty for a few years yet, so I have to use an authorized Suzuki dealer.

No you don't. That is a bullshit con motorcycle dealers in NZ have going. They bullshit its customers into believing they need to use their authorised dealers for the services during the warranty period to keep it valid and then charge top dollar for the services.

You can get any workshop to do the work or do it yourself providing you keep a record of the work and receipts of parts and oil used etc for proof that the required services were carried out at the mileage specified.

[breakaway]

For $450, they better provide a thai hooker that will suck and fuck me as they service my bike.

[Blew]

A 5000km service is basically just an oil change.

Did the bike have it's 1000km service?

Just rung Nelson Suzuki dealer VL 250 has valve clearance check at all its services, being a v twin it is like do clearances on 2 singles.

[Blew]

No you don't. That is a bullshit con motorcycle dealers in NZ have going. They bullshit its customers into believing they need to use their authorised dealers for the services during the warranty period to keep it valid and then charge top dollar for the services.

You can get any workshop to do the work or do it yourself providing you keep a record of the work and receipts of parts and oil used etc for proof that the required services were carried out at the mileage specified.

And if your servicing has any thing to do with a failure you wish fixed under warranty you will be referred back to the person who serviced it.

[Maha]

Whats this 5k service? Is it not - 1k - 6k - 12k - 18k etc? Just seems a bit keen or is it in the handbook?

Maybe cruisers are special?
My 6000K service last year cost me $174.
I posted this yesterday in a similar thread about Colmans.

[Blinkwing]

On a related note ... does anyone have a PDF copy of the VL250 manual so I can learn/try myself what needs doing (for next service).

I purchased one that just had its 24k service done off Trademe & the guy said it didn't come with a manual when he bought it from Colemans. I've clocked up 280km so far.

[Hiflyer]

I'd say a max of $270. My hyosung had a service round 5k or 6k and they replaced the 2 sets of front brake pads, did everything else as you would for a service, and it was $270. For $450 they'd better be gold plating the bloody bike! I'd say service it yourself, or get someone from here who would be able to help you with the right tools etc. I'm sure the SMC would be able to help you out!

[dipshit]

And if your servicing has any thing to do with a failure you wish fixed under warranty you will be referred back to the person who serviced it.

Of course... just like any work carried out on a bike any time in its life... warranty period or not.

Anybody working on their own bike at any time has no comeback if their own spanner work causes a problem. This is one advantage of going to a registered mechanic for work. You have a comeback on them if they caused a problem. So why should this put someone off doing an oil and filter change on their new bike as opposed to any other time..??

[Crasherfromwayback]

Its a fricken VL250 not a space fuking shuttle! it has like 3 moving parts in it! ....

Only 3 ya reckon? It's a VL250 mate...not a rotary.

[miloking]

Only 3 ya reckon? It's a VL250 mate...not a rotary.

Well yeah it was just a joke to make a point...its more like 7 or 8 parts max

[Crasherfromwayback]

Well yeah it was just a joke to make a point...its more like 7 or 8 parts max

Probably find a VL250 has more moving parts than the Space Shuttle mate! After all...that's just a couple of huge fuck right off fuel tanks and an ignighter!