A rant on accident repairs.
Now, as you're all aware, I'm a bit of an expert on crashing and the shit that goes on getting the bike fixed for the next few months. Here's a wee story to get you thinking.
Riff raff (fairly) recently had the SV repaired after a relatively minor, yet horribly expensive skirmish with the tarmac. The bike was delivered to what I consider to be a very reputable dealer for assesment and insurance repairs.
10 days later, Riff raff rings the dealer for an update and a time estimate on how long the repairs might take and is told, oh nah, we haven't seen the assesor yet, we were just about to call him when you called to see where he is. Ooooohhhhhh-kaaaayyyyy.
Riff raff calls back a few days later and is told, yep, it's all assessed, it needs this and this and so on and so forth. Probably 4 weeks as a few of the bits need to come from Japan. Cool.
Five weeks later, Riff raff rings said dealer for a progress report, to be told, Ohhhh, ummmmm, we're waiting for the last bit for the bike, it'll be here tomorrow.
One week passes, no news, Riff raff rings dealer, where's me fucken bike? Ohhhhh, yeeahhh, oh look, that part just turned up today. Ya can pick it up in the next couple of days. Riff raff rings in three, can I pick up my bike please.? You sure can m'am, it's all done!
So we rocks in there to pick up the bike and are handed the keys by a smiling bloke telling her he'd even given it a wash. Wow! Thanks man.
So, I'm looking at this bike over the next few days and something's not right, but I just can't quite put my finger on it. I worked it out, see if you can from the pics attached. But that's the least of my gripe.
I'm washing the bike a week later after taking it for a hoon, just to make sure it's all good, you understand. And I find the dashboard pannel isn't clipped in correctly, it's sitting proud on one side. Small thing but fairly obvious, would'a thought it'd be noticed. Oh, and what's this? One of the front mudguard (a newly replaced part) screws is hanging in by half a thread. Shit. Tighten that up.
Last week Riff raff says to me, my radiator's (newly replaced part) falling off! I take a peek under the front and yep, it hasn't been mounted right. Nice work.
Just took the bike down to the shop to grab some cigarettes and a coke (no I wasn't wearing any saftey gear other than a helmet) and riding back with my throttle hand performing dual duties of throttle and coke carrying, I notice there's no back brake. None. Not a problem, I usually never use 'em but Riff raff does. Wonder what's up here? That'll do it, of the two allen screws that hold the rear brake master cylinder to the foot peg bracket (newly replaced part), one's gone completely the other's less than finger tight. This allows the master cylinder to rotate as you push the rear brake pedal, applying zero fluid pressure to the calliper.
So here's my bitch.
1) An easy to spot fuck up in the photos.
2) Courtesay calls from bike shop to customer advising of delays: zero. Calls by customer: five.
3)Lose pannels, screws not tightened and serious issues overlooked: four
4)Didn't mention this but they changed the style of pipe without so much as a "Do you mind?"
But they washed the bike
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Originally Posted by White trash
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