geordie
Registered user
Hi,
after a starting issue with my 07 1200gs i spoke to the dealer and they agreed to take a look ( ignition on and no response from starter, happend 3 times ), they had my bike a few days and could not find anything wrong so they stripped and cleaned the front brake to stop the annoying low speed squeel.
Picked the bike back up and rode it the hundred odd miles or so home gave it a good clean and put it in the shed and on my optimate, got it out yesterday and when hit the starter all i got was a horrible whirring/whinning noise?? gave the starter another couple of prods and the same thing happened. this was followed by a severe verbal volley which still didnt start it. I put the bike in second gear and rocked it back and forth then tried again, With sounds like a machine gun it fired up followed by a bad smell of burning
Turned it off and ran for the hose pipe but the smell went away and it did not catch fire, a mate turned up and we had a look together not seeing anywhere where the smell had come from, the bike started again straight away but the starter does not sound right? Had a quick toby up the road and it ran ok then home again. But the front brake is squeeling again when stopping from low speed
spoke to dealer and they are picking it up wednesday
im thinking starter ring / motor ish?? dealer will tell mewhats wrong(i hope) and fix / change for free under warranty but some advice before hand would be great
only had it 6 months and this is the second time in as many weeks its been back to the dealers, had a look and ive done less than 2k on it and roughly 350 of that was between the dealers and home, i was tempted to tell them to keep the thing.
after owning jap bikes for years im starting to thiink ive dropped a bollock buying this........
after a starting issue with my 07 1200gs i spoke to the dealer and they agreed to take a look ( ignition on and no response from starter, happend 3 times ), they had my bike a few days and could not find anything wrong so they stripped and cleaned the front brake to stop the annoying low speed squeel.
Picked the bike back up and rode it the hundred odd miles or so home gave it a good clean and put it in the shed and on my optimate, got it out yesterday and when hit the starter all i got was a horrible whirring/whinning noise?? gave the starter another couple of prods and the same thing happened. this was followed by a severe verbal volley which still didnt start it. I put the bike in second gear and rocked it back and forth then tried again, With sounds like a machine gun it fired up followed by a bad smell of burning
Turned it off and ran for the hose pipe but the smell went away and it did not catch fire, a mate turned up and we had a look together not seeing anywhere where the smell had come from, the bike started again straight away but the starter does not sound right? Had a quick toby up the road and it ran ok then home again. But the front brake is squeeling again when stopping from low speed
spoke to dealer and they are picking it up wednesday
im thinking starter ring / motor ish?? dealer will tell mewhats wrong(i hope) and fix / change for free under warranty but some advice before hand would be great
only had it 6 months and this is the second time in as many weeks its been back to the dealers, had a look and ive done less than 2k on it and roughly 350 of that was between the dealers and home, i was tempted to tell them to keep the thing.
after owning jap bikes for years im starting to thiink ive dropped a bollock buying this........
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