Gixer thou servicing

Ok so it's second service is past due and it seems I have a warranty claim
to make [1]

Got in touch with the shop I got it from and they want £100 + parts to
service it. Is this about the going rate?

[1] On the way home from the BOSM started to get some serious juddering from
the front end under hard braking and pulsing through the brake lever...
Seems I have warped disk/s (to match the SOH I suppose)

 

Sounds cheap to me.

Good luck - warped discs seems a real 50/50 on whether or not the warranty
will pay.

 

Parts? Does that mean, oil, filter etc etc? If so, final price will be
nearer £150. I called a few places for a 4k mile service on mine.
£150 seemed average for a main dealer all in.

Then found the ex-service manager of MLS Bikesmart has a small
independent garage near me (Ealing). He's doing the whole service for
£105, including oil, filter etc. And he assures me he'll do a thorough
check over the bike, not just the minimum checks required by the
manufacturer.

Kiran

 

I suppose it makes it worth it then because they didn't bat an eyelid about
the disks they just told me to post them the service book so they could get
the disks ordered.

 

Certainly doesn't sound over the top.

 

Kiran says...

Just as an aside. As i'm buying a gixer thou in the near future I was
enquiring at a well respected Suzuki dealers about servicing and
suchlike. The top mechanic there reckons that of all the many gixer
series engines he services[1], there has only ever been two that have
ever required shims changing. He says they just never need doing for
some weird reason. Some of those bikes have upwards of 75,000 miles on
them.

The other nice thing is the gixer thou only needs them checking at
15,000 miles. Why the hell can't Kawasakis be like that?

[1] 600,750,900,1000,1100,1200,1300,1400.