My experience with Colemans Suzuki K Road

[jonbuoy]

Your right they should have just failed you on the steering head bearings and made it into a seperate job instead of doing you a favour and adjusting them. Your actually bitching about 45 minutes labour?

[BuzzardNZ]

nope, I specified only oil and filter plus wof. In the wof there is already a bike checkover isn'it? And if they find something wrong they have to fail it, not fix it without my consent.

Presumably you signed the work sheet before work began right? Did you read what it said before you signed it?

[Gianz]

Your right they should have just failed you on the steering head bearings and made it into a seperate job instead of doing you a favour and adjusting them. Your actually bitching about 45 minutes labour?

where did I bitch about 45mins labour?

[jonbuoy]

where did I bitch about 45mins labour?

What are you bitching about then? Most places are charging $23/litre for 5100 retail.

[Gianz]

Then it's good advertisement for colemans. I know I won't go back for sure, every body else can make a more informed decision now.

[jonbuoy]

Then it's good advertisement for colemans. I know I won't go back for sure, every body else can make a more informed decision now.

You sure you can afford to run a bike if you think $200 for getting someone else to do a WOF an oil and filter change is expensive. Seriously - running a company down on the internet over a few bucks price difference??

[tippersv]

I understand you are a bit thick, but you might realize that at the bar they don't ask you to pay for labour, do you? Or that they don't ask you to pay for environmental charges or for the fucking cleaning rag?

Thanks for starting the insults, but the analogy is the point, you dick-wad, not the specifics. Businesses are entitled to charge, and you are entitle to make a decision on which, if any, business, to use. Read the menu before you order, is the lesson you need to learn.

Try taking your own steak to a central Auckland restaurant , ask them to cook it for you because theirs is a bit 'pricey', and see how you get on??

[Swoop]

What are you bitching about then? Most places are charging $23/litre for 5100 retail.

Hmm. Cheaper than spirits.
I may have to start drinking oil.

[AllanB]

I'm thinking this is a non event - the charge rate appears very reasonable for the work done plus the parts costs are standard. Environmental charging has been around for years as it pertains to disposing of that oil your left them with. Miscellaneous workshop charge will cover things like shop rags, de-greaser etc.

I wonder what people would think it the workshops handed over the keys after a service and passed you a ziplock bag full of the old oil - 'there you go mate, I saved your our environmental charge .....'

[unstuck]

On average I dispose of between 20-30ltrs of oil a week, and someone has to pay the bill. I have put waste oil back in a bottle and given it back to a dickwad who complained about the extra $5. I only charge $20 cash an hour though for labour.

[Ulsterkiwi]

I doubt Doctors or Lawyers get paid that much

must get the number for yours, last one I had to use charged $280 per hour and she didnt even smile at me once.....

I think all this thread has taught me is if I look hard enough someone somewhere will be willing to tell me of a bad experience with every single business in existence.
Pricing is admitedly a minefield, the guy I use will tell me how much it costs to do work on the bike. Other places will tell you how much it costs to supply the stuff you need and then there is "plus labour" Surely if you are old enough to own a bike you can be expected for taking a bit of responsibility for finding out what you are getting into?


Out of curiosity, what do folks in KB land normally mean when they use the phrase "check the bike over..."?

[Laava]

Out of curiosity, what do folks in KB land normally mean when they use the phrase "check the bike over..."?

Redline it in every gear, heat the rear tyre to check it hasn,t gone off, look under the seat for miscellaneous goodies.

[Big Dog]

Out of curiosity, what do folks in KB land normally mean when they use the phrase "check the bike over..."?

Loaded question.

Looking to buy? About an hour and a half of checking everything including compression fluid consistency etc.

Cheap commuter at an oil change?
Let me know if anything is fucked or dangerous so I can decide what to do about it.

Pride and joy?
Just tell me how much and do all the things... Within a specified budget.

I do mean I will pay you a reasonable cost for your years of experience and training.
I do mean I will pay you to make any adjustments within reason.
I do not mean bend me over and tickle my brain.


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Ulsterkiwi]

Loaded question.

this was kind of my point. You have answered it well though and demonstrated we need to be pretty clear what we are asking people to do. Moaning afterwards about someones inability to read our minds isn't that helpful.

[AllanB]

I dropped the wifes car in the garage today - a mystery noise at idle over the past week or so. Of course when I drop it off it is not making the noise .... they have had it for the day - started it up, ran it around the block, popped it on the hoist, nothing. Bloody typical.

He did not charge at all, (we get WOF's tyres etc from there and he does the shit stuff like cam-belts) - told me to bring it back if it makes the noise again.