Starting Problems CBR1000(UPATE)

sounds like a good outcome

so let me get this right for only $1000 you got the 96 model

or is it for $1000 more than you paid for the 91 bike they gave you the
96 model ?

 

Good deal, in the end.

Are they going to let you know if they ever solve the problem with the other
one? Or is it going to be stolen and never seen again?

 

Great to hear something good about a dealer.
Rarity.
cheers
pete


"Captain Trips" > wrote

 

It's obviously been infected by Gremlins, and should by all rights
be buried at a roundabout[1]. However, because of the failure
of Western Reductionist Science to understand the gremlin
phenomena, it will instead be parted out and sold to thousands
of other unsuspecting CBR owners ...

The dealer sounds good though ... nice to hear a _good_ story
about a dealer for a change.

[1] It's crossroads for ghosts, roundabouts for gremlins.
Explains canberra.

 

Well after 4 mechanics have look at my CBR 1000F 1991 bike no one can
figure out why it won't start. But there is some fantastic good news.

The bike had no warranty when I took it back to Causeway Motorcycles in Vic
Park. They said that they would fix it and all I had to pay for was the
parts. They replaced the battery, starter motor, lead, starter clutch and
after pulling the notor out, seperating the cases they couldn't figure out
why it wouldn't start . Then an experienced Honda mechanic looked at it and
he couldn't figure it out. Then one of WA's best mechanics looked at and
even went to the extreme of completely re-building the motor and making sure
every single part was right it still wouldn't start!

So now what thay have agreed to do is buy my bike back for what I paid for
it and I can buy a later model (96 Vs 91) CBR with 20,000 k's less for a
$1000. I do not have to pay a cent for parts and labour.

Considering that legally they didn't have to do nothing for me at all I find
this to be just excellent customer service. Most dealers would have told
you too bad. The whole time the bike was with them they also gave me a loan
bike as well.

Also before I had the starting problems I was considering get WP springs,
gold valves, rear shock and braided lines. Again they offered to fit it all
for free and I just supplied the parts.

The new bike is so much better than the old. Gearbox is smoother. The
suspension is so compliant and engine so smooth that I find myself getting
over my head because I don't realise what speed I'm doing. Also there is no
noise at all from the cam chain tenshioner with is very most un-Honda like!
I can also see more than my elbows in the vibration free mirrors. I'm still
unsure of the DCBS though.

So if you are after a good bike dealer go and see Dale at Causeway
Motorcycles in Vic Park.

Cheers
Rob
(CBR1000) Dam its good to be back.

 

so let me get this right for only $1000 you got the 96 model

It was $1000 more than what I paid for the old CBR.

 

Where are you? Maybe BT Humble should buy it

-----sharks

 

Nah, he prefers to buy them in working condition and wreck them himself - best way to ensure the job is done right!

Damien
GPX250 (stolen) -> CBR600

 

Point is, in bits, it will probably work fine in dozens of
other CBRs forever. It's just the sum total of those bits
that dun work.

Bloody amazing story. This sounds like a dealer that would
be worth travelling interstate to deal with! I'm impressed,
no, wait, I'm amazed!

G

 

excellent

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Are they going to let you know if they ever solve the problem with the
other

I had just registered it (which they re-imbursed me for BTW!) so I would say
they will fix it up when they have spare time.

I said he should hand it to the apprentice and he doesn't graduate until he
gets it working. *LOL*

Its a pity as other than the starting problem the old one was great. I got
a chance to have a look at then engine as it was being pulled down and there
was very little wear inside the engine at all. It still had 170psi
compression across the range.

 

No more free batteries for you!


BTH

 

Well at least we know the timing chain is working.

Al

 

Agreed, Both Marty and I haven't heard a peep out of our honda's
camchain tensioner

Johno

 

Maybe you ought to take it out of the shed and start the bike up once in a
while, old man

Nev..
'03 ZX12R
'02 CBR1100XX

 

Why is everyone being so cruel to BT?
Leave him alone,ya bastards!


Postman Pat (I'm riding a crappy Toofiddy,drinking Vodka Cruisers,and I'm
sure I'm getting taller.......NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!)

 

Noooooo! That's the Unknown Fault Theory Of Automotives, which
demands (due to its reductionist philosophy) that any problem
with a bike must be caused by a physical problem (wear,
misassembly, etc) with some unknwon part, and that reassembling
the unit will therefore cause the fault to go away.

While all this philosophy is fine, and everyone is entitled
to their own opinion, the simple fact is that automotive problems
are caused by Gremlins (autopathogenus bastardii), and while
Gremlins usually only inhabit a bike singly (for example your
starter motor problem) or in breeding pairs (a combination of
a mis-timed ignition and a loosened kickstart lever, forex)
they lay their eggs throughout the machine, and use of parts
from an infected machine risks spreading the infection further.

 

So that's what those 'Data Dot' things are made of. Sheesh,
my bike (apparently) has them all over it!!!

G

 

Sure you aint been to BT'H's booth?

Hammo

Cue Full metal jacket line.....

 

"Sir! The private's rifle's name is Charlene, Sir!" ??


BTH