There are laws out there that protect you from them denying warranty claims because of accessories and mods done to your vehicle. Basically what the laws say is that they can't deny any warranty work on the vehicle except for the part you put on that is not a factory part or if that part causes the issue that is needing repair. It is also up to the dealer to prove that your added part or accessory caused the damage if they want to try and deny the warranty claim.

What rfw said. I'm sure you've heard of SEMA and you may think of the huge car convention in Las Vegas every year but what you probably didn't know is SEMA is the reason why what rfw said is true. They are a huge association that lobbies for people to be able to modify their vehicles with parts that aren't overpriced Suzuki/Toyota/GM/etc parts and still keep their warranty.

Im not convinced Colorado Girl has a petcock prob. I think she might have bought some bad gas. Last time I got bad gas was after nachos,,

I've run the stock petcock on all savages ... 5 so far, I dont know why you are having trouble ... seriously. Maybe the new ones are junk. But them 87 ones as well as the 2001 I had were all beautiful.
Cool.
Srinath.

OK any bike with a single disk front brake tends to eat fork seals, and after 4-5k impossible to get em to seal up. Wear ... in the world of oil seals a few 1000's is enough to never seal, and worse yet 1 speck of rust is enough to kill it. Its a design flaw ... forget about it ever working ... ever. I swap gs500's over from their 1 disk forks to a larger dia twin disk katana forks and I see the seals rust on the outside seating surface but still hold oil on the inner. These are crappy quality but dont twist when you brake, they just bend backward toward the exhaust ... and straighten back when you let go of the brakes ... you do know that everything moves right ... just how much and in what direction is what counts.

Then kickstand switch - didn;t have much issue on the suzuki ones, though I have bypassed a few on gs500's, but the kawasaki ones are complete disaster.
Then the petcock -
The vacuum line does need to be routed sway from making cylinder fin contact, it will wear and burn a nice hole in it ... However I have used them in no less than 5 savages ... in 95 I bought a 87, and I have onwed another 87 that I sold in 2009 after buying it in 08, another I bought st patty day 09 and sold in 2010 july, and the one I am working on now I have owned and sold and owned and sold and owned and sold 3 X ... yea owned by a friend of mine who has an inordinate attachment to this savage as well as a propensity to blow it up ... apparently it helped him get laid once ... and much like his marriage blows up just as often ... anyway ... over that period its broken a valve, broken the cam chain tensioner as well as many assorted bits and pieces, but not the petcock.

GS500's OTOH have a 2 petcock system ... 2 X the trouble you say ... OK but 2 X 0 is still 0. Just IMHO.

Cool.
Srinath

WD wrote on 09/24/12 at 12:23:35:

 With ONLY 572 miles on the clock, you bet I expect to be taken care of even though I bought this bike as a "drop" bike.  I certainly do not have these types of problems with my other bike and it has over 3 thousand miles on it.  


OF   You get'm girl -- these complacent arsed folks who run stock everything and NEVER have had any trace of the problems really don't even believe the rest of us when we talk about it having it .....