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Abort. There should be a page limit on non-intellectual gibberish 
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My R100GS tale of woe
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Airhead casings are sand cast ,the alloys used are very different to the die cast casings on later bikes and are nowhere near as susceptible to the corrosion suffered by later bikes,you generally get a bit of surface oxidation and it stops at that.
The alloys used on later bikes have( I believe ) a higher zinc content to allow the Molten alloy to flow more easily into the more complex dies .
If left the later casings would Corrode away to nothing,hence the powder coating.
Of course this could all be bollix as I'm not a metallurgist
The wheel rims will really polish up - they were a bright finish originally anyway, so with a little elbow grease they should come up well - the spokes are a different issue
Was thinking about removing the tyres and bearings and getting the wheels vapour blasted, don't know if that's a good idea or not, certainly the tyres will need replacing anyway.
If sir is now on a budget....
http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showth...17-quot-and-21-quot-Tourances?highlight=tyres
Has the seller made comment or got back to you?
No JB, from my side, I'm waiting for my bill from Overland&Classic, so I can work out a fair price for how much that can be attributed to the concealed mechanical faults at purchase. Its obviously not my intention to claim for any cosmetic work or repair to anything I could see that required rectification when I bought it i.e. cleaning up the carbs, cracked rubber pushrod tube seals etc.
This kind of situation quickly gets very awkward. I think you may find you should have given the seller the opportunity to rectify things or give you a full refund before going out and running up a huge bill at Mikeys. unless they're happy to pay towards it of course.
hopefully someone better informed than myself can chip in
I appreciate what your saying Rob, but I wasn't aware of the extent of the damage until Mike had stripped the engine down, a point of no return really, it's not as if the seller appears to want to communicate, the main issue is that the seller misrepresented what he was selling. I don't exactly feel comfortable about the situation myself.
Ijustwanttoseethephotos
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You need to be careful here, the seller is probably reading about the rebuild thread.
He could offer a full refund for the return of the bike, any court would deem this a good outcome.
Unfortunately you would have to stand the cost of all the work that's been carried out on the bike.
If you refuse his offer of a 100% refund because you'll not recover the cost of the work done,
there is no where else you can go.
Unless he's a mechanic, as regards the condition of the engine, he'll say that as far as he was aware it had had a full rebuild,
you were happy to purchase it on the day, you didn't have sufficient doubts to ask a third party to have a look as well.
Once again, he'll say return the bike and you can have a full refund.
I think because you've started work on it, you may have severely limited any possibilities of a favourable legal outcome.
Put it down to experience, enjoy the build, and look forward to years of reliable use!
He could offer a full refund for the return of the bike, any court would deem this a good outcome.
Unfortunately you would have to stand the cost of all the work that's been carried out on the bike.
If you refuse his offer of a 100% refund because you'll not recover the cost of the work done,
there is no where else you can go.
Unless he's a mechanic, as regards the condition of the engine, he'll say that as far as he was aware it had had a full rebuild,
you were happy to purchase it on the day, you didn't have sufficient doubts to ask a third party to have a look as well.
Once again, he'll say return the bike and you can have a full refund.
I think because you've started work on it, you may have severely limited any possibilities of a favourable legal outcome.
Put it down to experience, enjoy the build, and look forward to years of reliable use!
I guess that may be the case, I'm still hoping that the seller' will do the right thing' I sold a bike to someone on here earlier this year and delivered it, the next day he said he was not happy with it, so I drove the 100 miles or so and collected it, giving a full refund. I appreciate not everyone would do that, but in my eyes it was the right thing to do and we didn't fall out over it. I subsequently sold it to someone else who is totally happy with it and has more than doubled the mileage on it.
Ijustwanttoseethephotos
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That's the problem, for every one decent, honest seller, there's 99 rogues.
Best of luck with things, I'm sure you're going to end up with a 100% bike anyway,
now about blasting that gearbox casing..............
Best of luck with things, I'm sure you're going to end up with a 100% bike anyway,
now about blasting that gearbox casing..............
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Taking the view that any old crap airhead gs is worth ÂŁ4500 is probably reasonable ( buyer beware). Actually lieing about work that has been carried out is another thing.
I would have wanted to see more evidence of work carried out. I still think it's odd that if the seller thought it only needed a battery, then why didn't he fit one and sell it as a runner, for more money.
I would have wanted to see more evidence of work carried out. I still think it's odd that if the seller thought it only needed a battery, then why didn't he fit one and sell it as a runner, for more money.
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I see this a lot in adds and wonder the same. If it only needs minor work at minimal cost....................
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