Just viewed the small print on my 1290 SAS breakdown cover and it states that as long as I have an annual service with KTM then I am completely covered for up to 8 years or 50,000 miles. That seems a decent amount of cover to me.
Breakdown cover.
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What are you paying for this cover, is it just breakdown recovery or is it an extended warranty or comes when you purchase the bike .I’ve had the extended warranty on my 2011 bmw gsa I can get the cover for up to 80.000 miles .
Its free..no charge...apart from the cost of servicing obviously. First 4 years are warranty as per KTM warranty..then another 4 years of breakdown cover on top, up to 50,000 miles for twins. Covers UK and Europe. https://www.ktm.com/en-gb/service/mobility.html
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That sound very good . Obviously only on new bikes thougs.
I assume its for new bike...though maybe worth checking with dealer if buying nearly new?
I think if you have an older bike that has adhered to the specified service interval you can take advantage of it
Yes, get a service done at franchised dealer and they dish out 12 months RAC cover - this is only breakdown recovery and not warranty, so value is not that high, but worth having if you get dealer to service anyway, unlikely to get the home mechanics swapping £70 of oil / filters for £300 - £350 service bill.
Still keeping up my FDSH so its a bonus for me, next year it will need tappets, after that "big one" I will do my own small services as bike becoming too old for the SH to alter the value all that much.
Still keeping up my FDSH so its a bonus for me, next year it will need tappets, after that "big one" I will do my own small services as bike becoming too old for the SH to alter the value all that much.
Value is fairly high should you have an issue when over in Europe for example....especially if they have to get the bike back home for you.
I think RAC is about £100 a year now?
But I have cover for me and Mrs in any vehicle for about £120 from ETA who get good reviews, never had to test them in anger, but when we needed the RAC in Europe for apuncture on Mrs bike they were bloody awful - telling us we should have a spare wheel to get out of paying for accomodation or moving the bike to somewhere it could be fixed rather than dumping us for 3 days in a town where the bike shop was shut until Tuesday and making us pickup the Hotel bill - on top of me losing 2 days pay as I was self employed.....
...So not 100% certain of the "value" of the KTM RAC cover, but would hope they have figured out bikes don't have spare wheels when negotiating for KTM contract?
AA not much better, mate used them and got a puncture on day out @200 miles from home, they took hours to arrive and then swapped recovery vehicle twice, each time leaving him for a n hour or two waiting for the next truck to come and get him, he was 2-3 hours from home but it took them about 8 hours to get him home from the time he called.
On our first tour in Europe, in 2013, when we were completely new to it, we had Green Flag. Never again! We got a puncture in the Voges Mountains in attrocious conditions. Tyre actually popped off the rim! Therefore no choice but to call recovery. They sent a mad french man with a 2 seat flatbed truck, and as we were 2 up that wasnt exactly ideal. He had no idea how to secure a bike so I had to do it...not a problem really. He then drove us to our hotel like Emerson Fitipaldi around the hairpins etc before disappearing off into the night.
The next morning we called Green Flag and they gave us an address where the bike was. We ordered a taxi and it was 120 Euros. However when we arrived the workshop was closed and there was no sign of the bike! Luckily a passer by, who actually worked there, saw me looking through the window and gave us another address where the bike would definitely be, which was another 65 Euros in the taxi!
Fortunately the bike was there and they had a compressor, so I managed to get the tyre plugged and pumped up to pressure. However, I was not convinced it would last the next 3 days heading back to the Chunnel so I asked the place if they knew where I could get a tyre but the owner said as it was Monday, all were closed so we would have to wait till the next day. This was not going to happen due to the distance back to the Chunnel. None of the staff apparently spoke any English, but I did manage to get one of the reception girls to speak pigeon English and combined with my little bit of French she explained her friend did motorcycle tyres and was open. She gave me the address, about 9 km away, so I left my Mrs with the luggage and risked it to get to the tyre shop.
New set of PR3's fitted, no fuss, and the mechanic even cleaned the bike while I was paying! When I got back to the garage to collect the wife, the girl who had given us the tyre shops info was getting a right telling off by the chap who had picked us up the night before. Apparently the tyre shop that opened on Tuesday was his brothers place and he wanted him to get our business! The girl was almost in tears and my Mrs had to intervene to stop me from chinning the idiot doing the shouting.
When I got home I contacted Green Flag and asked about a refund for some of the taxi fair as the policy did say onward travel etc, but they did not want to know. I also mentioned the issue with lying garage staff etc and again they were not interested. As I said. Never again.
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