Well not quite. I'm not advocating that anybody should claim a bike has been serviced when it hasn't. That's a bad thing.OnHellas wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 7:53 amSending a bike with a false service history!daveuprite wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:50 amBloody hell! It's a Honda motorbike, not a Porsche 911. Amazing quotes.sexysi wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2019 6:35 am Was a bit shocked yesterday as I went into the Honda dealers where I bought my bike some 10 months ago and booked my 16k service. All booked in ok, but I'm now having 2nd thoughts I can do the service myself, but wanted to retain the 1 years warranty left on the bike. I was shocked when the guy told me, did I realise that the service was £900!!!.
Wtf, now do I service the bike via the dealer knowing that I will have to get a 24k + another 32k service done by the end of year. Or do I start doing it myself. Cause this year servicing will alone cost me near 2k!.
Do those spark really need changing yet, this is where I believe £120 of the cost is...... and does anyone actually pay £900 for a service.....
Thoughts please.
Think I'd be very tempted to buy genuine or good quality parts, do the service myself, buy a John Bull printing set to make up a stamp, and then put the left over £750 into my 'next adventure' piggy bank.
Nice!!!!
I'm saying you should carry out the service yourself with the proper parts in the right way, using the Honda workshop manual where necessary. So the bike gets serviced - no question. Then you simply fill in the service schedule yourself and avoid the exorbitant labour charges referred to in the OP. The important thing is that the bike gets looked after. Remember a lot of mechanics are just fitters these days following a procedure in a workshop manual and often do nothing different to what you could do adequately yourself.
The only problem with this is that there is no electronic record of the service with Honda, so warranty claims might still be invalidated.