So pissed off!

[SMOKEU]

My Honda Melody kept cutting out when I gave it any more than half throttle and it wouldn't go any faster than 45kmh, so I took it into a bike mechanic to get it fixed. I paid about $162 labour and the mechanic said the exhaust was blocked so I needed to sort it out myself. On the way home it stalled and wouldn't start again so I had to push it home. The next day I had to get someone to take my scooter back to the mechanic and the guy had another look at it for a few hours. Got it back the next day and he said that a seal had broken and blocked the main jet so he fixed it free because it was his mistake. Even after that it went exactly the same as before, and he insisted that the muffler was blocked. So I cut the muffler off and it's even worse. So $162 and it's worse than it was to start off with. Rode it round for another week and tonight after work it wouldn't even start at all. And before any of you give me shit for what I ride, if I had the money then I'd have a proper bike.

[idb]

Did you really cut the exhaust off!!!???

[SMOKEU]

it's a bit loud atm, but I'll chop the muffler in half to clean it out and then weld it back on. It starts now as well, I think water got inside the engine last night in the rain so that's probably why it wouldn't start before.

[dipshit]

75% of bike mechanics in NZ are freaking useless.

Real mechanics (like in the car industry) do not charge a thing for misdiagnosing a problem. They only start charging once they have diagnosed the problem and have begun fixing it.

If you took it in for the specific problem, then demand your money back if they did not fix it. It is their problem if they replaced parts or did work that was not the cause of the bike cutting out.

[imdying]

A melody is a 2 stroke? If so, it's not just the muffler that'll need a clean.

[dipshit]

it's not just the muffler that'll need a clean.

Probably is. Why the mechanic couldn't do this and get the bike running properly like the owner asked is beyond me.

[dipshit]

Actually, why the "mechanic" couldn't check the exhaust for being blocked or if not find the problem and fix the bike like the owner asked is beyond me.

I and totally convinced that half of the so-called bike "mechanics" in NZ couldn't service a freaking wheelbarrow.

[SMOKEU]

It sure is a 2 smoker. The mechanic said I should cut a piece of the muffler off and clean the shit out, because we could both hear a lot of loose things inside the muffler when he took it off and shook it around. And by the way, it was at a Honda dealer as well. And they had the nerve to charge me about $81 per hour just to 'diagnose' a fault.

[The Pastor]

You cut the entire muffler off a 2 stroke and you wonder why it ran like shit and then stopped running.......

[dipshit]

The mechanic said I should cut a piece of the muffler off and clean the shit out, because we could both hear a lot of loose things inside the muffler when he took it off and shook it around.

If he already had it off and he thought this was clogged up... then he should have cleaned it out before putting it back on. It would have been far easier for him to clean it than you.

Something like this would be all it would take...

[klingon]

Something like this would be all it would take...

Well maybe I'm easily entertained, but that was an excellent video! Clearly showed the pipe glowing as the deposits burned off different parts of the exhaust. I'm off to do it to my Volty now (although I think I'll leave the pipe on the bike for simplicity).

[White trash]

Well maybe I'm easily entertained, but that was an excellent video! Clearly showed the pipe glowing as the deposits burned off different parts of the exhaust. I'm off to do it to my Volty now (although I think I'll leave the pipe on the bike for simplicity).

Great idea.

I hear doing a really long 4th gear burnout on the re-volty untill the exhaust header's glowing red is the action.

[White trash]

75% of bike mechanics in NZ are freaking useless.

Real mechanics (like in the car industry) do not charge a thing for misdiagnosing a problem. They only start charging once they have diagnosed the problem and have begun fixing it.

If you took it in for the specific problem, then demand your money back if they did not fix it. It is their problem if they replaced parts or did work that was not the cause of the bike cutting out.

Soooo, if you take your car into a workshop for them to diagnose something, and at the end of the day you return and they say "Sorry, can't find what's causing it", you just say "Thanks very much anyway" and drive off?

What colour's the grass on planet dipshit by the way?

[dipshit]

Soooo, if you take your car into a workshop for them to diagnose something, and at the end of the day you return and they say "Sorry, can't find what's causing it", you just say "Thanks very much anyway" and drive off?

If I take a car in for a specific problem... but they do not fix the problem... then they cannot charge you for fucking around with other things. It is not your problem if they don't know what they are doing.

Otherwise they will keep guessing at what it 'could' be and keep sending you bills until they finally get it.

Maybe that is how useless motorcycle mechanics do it. It isn't how a good car mechanic works though.

[dipshit]

Well maybe I'm easily entertained, but that was an excellent video! Clearly showed the pipe glowing as the deposits burned off different parts of the exhaust.

Yep, once the carbon buildup is burning by itself - just blow in oxygen and it will keep burning back and blowing the crap out.

Or another way to do it at home without a gas plant, is to get a fire going in an old drum in the backyard and put your pipes in the fire (with a bit of wire attached somewhere so you can pull them out again) and you will start to hear the buildup burning away inside.