Most ridiculous/ expensive workshop bill ever received?

[G4L4XY]

If it's a '10-'12 GS I want your wheels Need a spare set to run road and adv tyres... They cost a lot.

I'm most of the way there on adding up accessories and servicing.
2011: $12.2k
2012: $9.4k
2013: $4k
2014: $2.9k
2015: $3.8k

Ignorance is bliss they say... it was. I've spent $32k on a $35k bike. If I added WOF and Rego, I've probably equalled the bike. Well, it is fun (the riding, the spending just kinda happens as a side effect)


Of course, given that the BMW has over 111k on it now (see all the costs spent on servicing etc above) it would be lucky to fetch $15-20k now. Probably not far off that value in a little while, but I don't intend on selling

I want your job

[Gremlin]

I want your job

No you don't. No kids/wife/gf means less drain on finances...

I have one vice, I just make it a big one

[jasonu]

it made horrendous groaning/clunking noises and slipped like fuck....top of archers road coronation road intersection...if it wasn't for the fact it was downhill back to KASPAs i wouldn't of made it....
next CRC speedshow i'm thinking of having some t shirts printed up with Beagle Boys logo instead of their one and standing next to their display inviting people to ask me about my experience with KASPA Transmissions.......thieving cunts they are

Have you given them the chance to make it right? Or did they simply tell you to fuck off?

[MarkH]

For doing the work myself:
I'm willing to change the oil & filter on the ST1300, but most other tasks I'll leave to the bike shop.
On the DR650 I'll do a LOT more including changing tyres, removing the carby to clean and adjust, replacing chain & sprockets, etc.
There is a hell of a difference between the 2 bikes when it comes to looking at the engine, I'd rather work for a couple of weeks and pay a big bill with the money earned than tackle a complicated task on the ST.

[vifferman]

I've been lucky with bikes, but the potentially most expensive bills have been with cars: Peugeot 205 GTi had a top-end rebuild after we bought it, which cost over 5k (more than the car), then a few years later it needed another one, so we sold it to the mechanic.
My Passat has been better; it needed the rear suspension replaced, but after the fuckwit dealer tried to have me pay for it ($1500 in parts and the same in labour), I got onto the VW website, the GM of VWNZ rang me back and covered the whole cost. It was under warranty, after all. Then a few months out of warranty, I took it in for a routine service (at a better dealership), and to get a warning light checked out. It turned out to be some actiator in the inlet manifold which not uncommonly fails on many injected makes and models. Without even teling me, the service crew contacted VWNZ, and had all but $50 of the several thousand dollars of parts and labour covered by them and the dealership. Awesome service! I was so blown away that I bought the service crew a big chocolate cake.
It's amazing how dear parts are getting for bikes though; I usually buy parts off the web, as Bluewing Honda have a monopoly and NEVER carry any stock of even common parts, but recently I went to do this, (Partzilla, I think) and they were going to charge over US$90 for taxes and freight. So... I ordered them through Honda, and they took nearly a month to get here. For a few plastic trim clips, four fairing bolts and two small fairing brackets (smaller than a matchbox) cost me $106. And they're now all made in Taiwan! So the redonculously expensive bolts were noticeably shitter quality (poor chroming) and one of the brackets was painted (rather than plated like the originals), and despite looking better made, when I bolted it on, the alignment was out by about 4mm.

[F5 Dave]

Stop buying cars not made in Japan. Learn to spot a pattern. The French hate you, but not just you. it is personal and particularly you. And the Germans I guess, but that wasn't as expected.