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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Trip to Harley Dealer /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1556945391 Message started by SoC on 05/03/19 at 21:49:51 |
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Title: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by SoC on 05/03/19 at 21:49:51 So I read the thread about the leaky exhaust and check the links. I previously wrote about my last trip to my local Harley dealer to try and get some exhaust clamps. With the latest posts having a link it was easy with very little research to bring up a Harley part number. So to refresh, last time I went into my local Harley dealer to try and get a couple clamps. Me, I need a clamp for a 1 and 3/4" exhaust. Counter guy, can't help you what Harley model is it for and what year? Me, not for a Harley, it for a Suzuki LS650. Counter Guy, we don't sell parts for Japanese bikes. Me, ok it's for a Dyna. Counter guy, what model Dyna and what year. After long exchange like that went on like that he determines they don't have clamp and he can't help me. Cut to today, from reading the discussion I have a Harley Part number. Walk in and hand the guy a slip of paper with the number on it. He enters it in computer, tells me immeduiately it's out of stock, but they will order it for me and they will be in in 3-4 days. Make of the story what you want. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/04/19 at 00:55:14 T-bolt clamps Available online http://clampco.com/products/t-bolt.asp It's too bad that the only way to buy a blasted exhaust clamp from Harley Davidson is to give them the year and model Harley it would be on. Probably plenty of guys who could have handled your request, but, yeah,, it's kinda like that with the savage, too. They seem to be really concerned about the year model when I want an oil filter. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by Dave on 05/04/19 at 05:12:10 Go to eBay and you can get a pair of Harley Clamps shipped to your door for around $11. https://www.ebay.com/itm/TWO-Genuine-Harley-2-OD-1-7-8-ID-1-1-4-Wide-Muffler-Exhaust-CLAMPS/132925939346?hash=item1ef300de92:g:TRQAAOSwuytcRgKP:sc:USPSFirstClass!41076!US!-1 |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/04/19 at 05:22:53 Those are seriously Badass |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by philthymike on 05/04/19 at 07:12:21 Thanks for the link Dave! Need to order new ones too And a word of warning. Never take your Suzuki to a HD dealer for state inspection unless you want your bike back broken. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by Dave on 05/04/19 at 16:28:47 1008090C1408190D090B05600 wrote:
OK.....How do you break something by inspecting it? :-? |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by Serowbot on 05/06/19 at 11:38:22 19222F3829253E38232B26394A0 wrote:
I can do it... :-? |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by philthymike on 05/06/19 at 20:29:27 576C6176676B70766D656877040 wrote:
OK.....How do you break something by inspecting it? :-?[/quote] The inspector removes the gas tank and throws away a rubber bushing. That’s how. When I got the bike home it was missing a gas tank bushing and failed the inspection for a loose gas tank. Wasn’t loose when I rode it in there.... |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by MMRanch on 05/06/19 at 20:55:03 I'm glad Tn. don't inspect ! I'd be breaking somebody's jaw for touching my bike ... ;) |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by Dave on 05/07/19 at 04:10:21 706270626F7C737E753D0 wrote:
I am glad that KY doesn't inspect......I can only imagine what kind of issues they would find on my Cafe' conversion. The bike is mechanically sound and safe to ride - but it has very little in common with the stock bike. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by philthymike on 05/07/19 at 05:52:53 The sales guys at my local HD are nice people. I even let one of them take Thumpy for a ride. But the mechanics are totally not cool from my experience. State inspection is such a PITa |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by norm92de on 05/07/19 at 09:55:15 We have a state inspection here in Texas but it is pretty straightforward. No hassles normally. Here I am saying this and mine is due this month, I hope I don't have to eat my words. ;D |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by verslagen1 on 05/07/19 at 10:23:43 534B4A4F574B5A4E4A4846230 wrote:
OK.....How do you break something by inspecting it? :-?[/quote] The inspector removes the gas tank and throws away a rubber bushing. That’s how. When I got the bike home it was missing a gas tank bushing and failed the inspection for a loose gas tank. Wasn’t loose when I rode it in there....[/quote] What were they "inspecting" when they removed the tank? |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by springman on 05/07/19 at 11:44:10 Norm, I just recently had my bike inspected in the Houston area. It took about 5 minutes. They check the vin, the insurance, look at the tires, check that turn signal indicators work, ask me to beep the horn and ask me to switch from low to high beam and back. And that was it. I can live with that! |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/07/19 at 14:24:38 Yesterday Dude walks out with me after I showed my insurance paper. I turned the key on He pointed Showed him the front signals work. High low beam Horn He walked to the rear Signals check Brake light check He eyeballed the tires and we were done. No VIN check No high beam indicator check. Got my registration sticker today. I'll install after I scrape old ones off, and get the small river of epoxy that oozed on the area when I was gluing the reinforcement plate behind the cracked license plate. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by philthymike on 05/07/19 at 15:17:09 293A2D2C333E383A316E5F0 wrote:
OK.....How do you break something by inspecting it? :-?[/quote] The inspector removes the gas tank and throws away a rubber bushing. That’s how. When I got the bike home it was missing a gas tank bushing and failed the inspection for a loose gas tank. Wasn’t loose when I rode it in there....[/quote] What were they "inspecting" when they removed the tank?[/quote] I asked that very question. Reply was the non-answer “ it’s standard procedure”.... My butt it is! I left a google review for them describing the experience. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by verslagen1 on 05/07/19 at 20:32:27 332B2A2F372B3A2E2A2826430 wrote:
My reply would've been... You know a good mechanic would've been able to put the tank back on correctly. you can glue the tank rubbers on with rtv... just to keep idiots like this at bay. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by ohiomoto on 05/08/19 at 05:36:12 I think what Mike is saying is the inspector doesn't like his bike and sabotaged it so it would fail inspection. RTV won't stop a knucklehead like that. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by philthymike on 05/08/19 at 07:47:50 I was suspicious considering that the mechanic made a snide remark about wheeling a Suzuki into his shop. Like the bike was desecrating holy space or something. ::) |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by justin_o_guy2 on 05/08/19 at 07:58:19 Didn't listen to your gut. |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by Ruttly on 05/08/19 at 14:37:17 Yup Mike you broke the cardinal sin. No one at a Harley dealer wants a jap bike in or near the building. When I ride my tracker over there it always collects a small crowd of lookers and haters , screw them ! |
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Title: Re: Trip to Harley Dealer Post by philthymike on 05/09/19 at 12:31:04 Yeah screw em. My thoughts exactly. The elitism is just a sign of inferiority complexes anyway. Can’t take those people seriously |
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