Waiting for bike parts

[robertydog]

Didja order it yourself, or wait on a dealer to get it through normal channels?
I';ve had stuff from the US or UK in less than a week, and had stuff ordered ex-Japan by a dealer still not arrive after 7 months (subsequently obtained ex-USA in a matter of days, for about 25% of the price).

That was thru a dealer. (Yamaha) I ordered other parts myself ex USA (good old ebay) and they arrived a couple of days later.

[hang0ver]

Sounds like you are dealing with Motorad... Took a week of reminding them before they actually ordered the required part, 2.5 weeks shipping after that...

[Grizzo]

After my little run in with a pice of steel on the motorway. I put my girl into the shop with instructions to make her all shiny again.

Rang yesterday after 2 weeks,....................to be told that the parts are 3 and half weeks away in Japan???????

An d ithought I had bought a fairly standard bike??????

It took a certain bike shop here in Masterton nearly a month to get a speedo cable for my old bandit. Talk about frustrating

[vifferman]

I ordered some cush rubbers once. They checked online and said not only were there none in stock, but there were none available ex-Japan either, so they were indent only (they'd make some once they had sufficient orders). As it was a non-critical part, I decided I'd wait, and paid up front (only way they'd place an order). I was told it could be up to six months. Okaayyyyy...
So, I rang back a couple of times to check if there'd been any progress. Finally, after about 7 months, I phoned again, told them the 6 months were up. They did some checking and discovered they'd never placed the blardy order! So, they offered me the choice of waiting while they placed an order, or having a refund of my $85.
I bought them online for NZ$23, from Arizona. Got them in a few days.
And that was the last time I bought genuine Honda parts from a dealer. I will probably try buying parts again, especially if they're heavy parts, but as soon as they give me the "Sorry- not in stock, 3 weeks ex-Japan" line, I'll be on the Interdweeb.

[vgcspares]

we've a customer who will have been waiting two years come next week for some Aprilia parts ....

[cs363]

yeah they are i should imagine. they should offer a VOR service and DHL air freight parts though, as every car franchise offers. any lessis pathetic

Only problem with that is the cost, parts are mostly damn expensive now and I bet you wouldn't want to pay DHL charges on top (even if they're split up between a few different customers orders) - those bastards charge like a very wounded bull!
And one thing's for sure, no distributor is going to soak up freight charges, again one of the problems with living on a little group of islands miles from anywhere.

[cs363]

Yeah, I'm with Viff on this, I tend to order most of my parts from the US.

But... I got a bit pissed off with my traditional Suzuki dealer after getting monumentally fucked around, so I've been ordering bits from Haldanes. I needed some really obscure parts for my racebike - and despite the quirkiness of the guy behind the parts counter, he's been super efficient, and all parts have arrived in a timely manner. And the prices have been reasonable. And the quirky humour is actually kind of refreshing.

And - this is stunningly unbelievable - so far every part has been correct first time (well, except for a brake lever, but that's because I got the part and year wrong, not Haldanes fault).

Honda on the other hand - but I do have an old Honda...

Lol, sounds like we're in the same boat! I'm well used to ordering CBX parts off EBay or contacts in the US as I'm sure you are. However for a 29 year old bike that's to be expected.
What has amazed me is how few parts Suzuki carry for RF900's, considering they must have sold a fair swag of them over the years, not to mention the privately imported ones and this is a bike that has fairly good parts interchangeability between years.

However I must say the parts that I do order (through Scott at MR Motorcycles) have been obtained very quickly, and well within the quoted delivery times. Again, I've bought the odd bargain off EBay as well for this bike, some have been good - some not quite what I was expecting, though as I said earlier that is a risk that you take with EBay.

I believe some of the more switched on dealers have some close arrangements with overseas dealers to help obtain parts when things get difficult with normal channels.

[madbikeboy]

Lol, sounds like we're in the same boat! I'm well used to ordering CBX parts off EBay or contacts in the US as I'm sure you are. However for a 29 year old bike that's to be expected.
What has amazed me is how few parts Suzuki carry for RF900's, considering they must have sold a fair swag of them over the years, not to mention the privately imported ones and this is a bike that has fairly good parts interchangeability between years.

However I must say the parts that I do order (through Scott at MR Motorcycles) have been obtained very quickly, and well within the quoted delivery times. Again, I've bought the odd bargain off EBay as well for this bike, some have been good - some not quite what I was expecting, though as I said earlier that is a risk that you take with EBay.

I believe some of the more switched on dealers have some close arrangements with overseas dealers to help obtain parts when things get difficult with normal channels.

To be honest, I was really lucky with my CBX, it has a heap of parts in boxes with Honda labels. I haven't actually needed much for it. Most of the important parts I have spares. I'd love to find another motor and frame - the magic I could weave with that...

I still have the stock pipes and headers... And the factory repair manual...

I'll send you photos if you send me some...