All good. I got her back Saturday. Started her up and fell straight back in love. Pulled away in the car park and the clutch "grabbed" slightly. Think "is it broken? is it knackered? do they all do this? it's a 12 year old bike, its going to do this." pulled out the car park and let the revs build and fell back in love. Gear change was a little clunky going back down the box, think to myself "is the gear box knackered? do they all do this? get a grip, it is a 12 year old bike" Back up the box and fell in love again. Was like this all the way home. I think until Geoff @ Baines gives me the all clear and I have a few trouble free rides the paranoia levels will be very high. In the end the original bike shop paid for the OYB labour, new cush rubbers and sent a new after market sprocket that did not need a new carrier. I have had to pay the pick up charge, £60. I am waiting for the cheque for the cush rubbers as I had to pay OYB in advance for them but called the bike shop today and they say I will have a cheque by the end of the week. According to Trading Standards it is my responsibility to return the item to the seller. I pointed out it was a motorcycle and 100 miles away so not like taking a toaster back to Argos and what if it was a toilet I had already plumbed in but Trading Standards said that would be up to a judge to decide, I assume small claims. I really can't be bothered to go to small claims over £60. With regards the parts, Trading Standards stated that as it was a second hand vehicle all the seller had to do was fix it. They are entitled to use OEM or aftermarket parts and can use new or second hand parts at their own discretion. I had no rights to demand a new OEM Ducati sprocket, as long as it was fixed safely. Also, as I had nothing in writing to say they were happy to pay OYB for the labour if they had changed their minds and refused to pay OYB I would have been in trouble. A purchaser has no rights to demand a refund or an exchange, it is the sellers choice if they fix it, exchange it or refund you. Basically, Matt, you are way to nice to your customers from a legal position. I guess if you want them to come back you keep them happy but if your selling a vehicle to someone a long distance away you probably will never see them again and they wont come back to you for servicing anyway so why keep them happy? To be honest I'm not unhappy with the bike shop, they could have made it much harder and demanded I return it to them. In the end it has cost me £60 for new cush rubbers and a new sprocket so I should be good for another 10k miles with a new front sprocket and chain when required. If it is dry this weekend I will go out for a couple of hours, maybe to see Geoff @ Baines to say hello as it is a nice ride for me. Then a good wash (rode home in the rain Saturday, lovely sunshine today, typical) and put her away till Jan/Feb as I wont get another ride in before Christmas. Will spend some time in the garage with a hair dryer, thread lock and a torque wrench. Book her in to Baines in Jan/Feb for the valves, etc, then bring on sunshine!!!!!!!! +:Nailbiting:+:Kiss:+:Banghead:=Ducati
I'm sure she will be fine, and from what I have seen from eBay if I stripped her for parts I would not lose much. I just need Geoff and a few experienced heads to look at her and go "yeah, they all do that, it's character".
Quite right... The clutch may will need a look at/service, all part of the, dare I say 'fun'... I bought a MY2000 748R in my salad days and I went through the same baptism you are. I loved the bike, but the clutch was fecked and I didn't know how to unfeck it, the bastard kept stalling, which turned out to be the Nile flood siltage in the fuel filter, then the fecker started to fart on the over run, which I sorted with a tweak of the trim pot. The bloody hours I spent on the internet, then in the garage sorting the bugger! Finally got it all sorted and some dopey Polish sucker of cock T boned me at a junction! RIP my poor yellow bikey.
Budget for a stator rewire at westcountry windings and a mosfet reg/rect and as long as your battery is good that will be about it. Unless the oil gallery plug on the crank works itself loose, or a spring on the gear selector snaps, or... . Rebuilding and servicing the clutch is an easy job. I find a grabby clutch can be cured with some convex plain plates from JHP for £6 each. Or adjusting stack height. I had the oil gallery plug syndrome too. Fortunately spotted by Snells when it was getting a full monty and fixed JIT. I change oil every 1k (ish) and check oil strainers for bits. Mainly because nothing much goes wrong with it now and I need to fettle. If we valued reliability over all other things we'd all be riding Hondas. But we dont. 80% of the time the thing will drive you nuts. But that 20% will be the best. They are a labour of love. Theyre like cats. They will soak up all the love and still leave a deposit on your carpet.
Oh Nelson that just ain't right. She looked lovely. Even when/if the insurance pays out it is never the same as your lost love with all the time and emotion that we put into them. Bootsam, she only grabs when good and hot, either first pull away after 90 seconds of tick over or at a set of traffic lights that refuse to change. On A roads moving along she is fine. And your spot on about the bloody cats. I bought 3 second hand sets of duvet covers last night to use as bike covers/rags over the winter, when I was cutting them up in the lounge I could see the cats thinking "you just leave them in the corner of the lounge and I can have a really good shit in them tonight, then when you come downstairs you can spend all morning searching for the smell".
Sorry to append this but I know you clever people will get a bump. Will ANY 1098 stand fit my 2002 996 with the cut out switch?
Glad you got the bike back and all is sorted.Enjoy the lovely grunt of the 996. Surprised by trading standards response if part was faulty so I guess you get a lot less consumer rights when buying used goods especially motor trade.Buyer beware I guess. As long as your happy as the customer with bike shop resolution that's all that matters and all the other forum members can make there own mind up on buying second hand ducati bikes from this shop.
Sven if its new, the seller normally has the right to repair or replace. Thats no different. Just most retailers dont enfore repair as they simply send back to manf for rebate
I've moved stands from one engine/bike to the other without problems. I believe the stand switch are the same, maybe one may have a longer loom? Double check the connector ends.
Much, discovered some damage to the tail unit. Paint seems ok elsewhere. Hope other side is ok too. Hair dryer and WD40 working a treat.
Update, just fitted a 848 stand and bracket. Looks much better even if it is the wrong colour. Might spray it silver instead of black. Broke my first Dzeus brackets turning the ones that meet at the bottom of the fairing the wrong way. Twat. Imagine I'm not the first. Do the thickness of the white plastic washers vary at different points on the fairing or do they vary just to get a nice tight fit?
Get a tight fit. You wont be the first, or the last, to have the bike develop wings over 40mph on its own when they fall out otherwise (£1700 claim when mine did) Another quality one liner with no fact and no value, brought to you courtesy of know-feck-all
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