Fantastic service from Rainbow workshop (Independent)
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keep up the good work 
Perhaps he was trying to identify who had genuine warranty/service issues and others who were just chancers âŠ.when he was at Rainbow
Never had a genuine warranty issue turned down at Rainbow - but he knew I wouldnât be taking the piss
The stories from all BMW Motorrad dealers in Yorkshire over the years about chancer owners trying it on, demanding warranty fixes âŠ.on stuff the owner themselves had fecked up âŠ.were priceless and could be guaranteed to raise a chuckle in all the workshops
Speak as I find and heâs always been 100% with me, before at Rainbow and afterwards on his own
My GSâs run great after heâs serviced them
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I sincerely hope you arenât calling me a chancer. You don't know me. My issue with him was his attitude regarding spending a large sum of my money without any form of authorisation (as per my instructions when the bike was dropped off for a service). Maybe you are happy with that kind of "service" but I'm not. As I said earlier, you lot don't like any negative points about your chum Steve, but I speak as I see too.
I didnât mention you whatsoever - so no need to get all defensive
I donât know you & your experience is unfortunate-but there are always exceptions and times when things could have been done better
Plenty out there though
I read on a car forum this week that a bod had a serious problem with his car - 7 months out of warranty and the fix was going to cost ÂŁ3000
Manufacturer and dealer wouldnât offer warranty or goodwill
Someone piped up that he hire or demo a similar model and swap the part over from the hired car onto his and then therefore fix the bodâs problems
Then return the hired car and deny any faults
That is an example of a chancer, suggesting that underhand tactic
Thanks Pukmeister, just like sticking to the service schedules, only other (major?) thing I have done is a new battery after 50K. Just gets better with miles on that engine. Very and I mean very slight blistering on the heads, hard to spot.
Rather keep this and spend the PX money on holidays etc.
Then again the new GSA soon! âŠ..bugger lol.
TD
Website working for me, just now
But you have to look at the menu in top right and not just the front home page - just like the majority of websites & they have a menu to locate all the services/ goods they offer
Not that hard really âŠ.
Thanks for the info JB- very helpful until you got to the condescending last line.
That info wasnât showing when I looked at his website so I emailed him with details of what I required.
His email reply told me to âlook at the websiteâ. He could have given me the info I required with less effort and less typing than the answer he gave.
I ainât bothered either way- I can do the work myself but it was a bike that had been stood four years so I would have preferred an expert âonce overâ before either keeping it or selling it. Probably would have kept it if heâd given it the nod but ended up trading it in against a new 1250RS . I purchased a service plan with four services for ÂŁ750 from the main dealer so I think thatâs probably his loss not mine.
Stratman59
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You don't need to tell if a man's from Yorkshire, he'll have already told you.
We donât need to. Your inferiority complex will identify us.
Just had mine in for a 12k service, nice bloke and a top job. Very happy.
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