Factory Recalls

[bad boy busa]

I am in the process of taking Suzuki to the Fair Trading Tribunal. I am wanting to get a list of any known recalls for the Hayabusa or any Suzuki gearbox related issues.

Please don't include issues related to failure under race or drag conditions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated....

[GDYUP]

Only know of one gear box failure over the past 7 years Bad Boy...

The way that guy rode it was amazing it lasted that long.....
(You know who you are Bigshow)

Maybe Faster would be able to shed more light.

Good luck with your quest.

[Timj]

Do a search mate, I had gearbox trouble at a little over 2000km on a 6 week old bike last year. Suzuki are retards when it comes to warranty work (Suzuki Australia that is). A bit like that Brendan Grunter so someting like that who works for them. Good luck.

[Fat Busa Racing 1347]

One of our guys had some problems with a new Busa

up our way, but they gave him a new one and kept the one

that had a few bugs in it I thought that it was a nice

that they gave out a spanking new bus insted of trying to fix

the old one Regards Richard

You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike. Paul Teutul,Sr. American Chopper

[BUSGO]

I'd guess that all they would have done is moved the faulty one onto another sucker and hoped that it wouldn't come back to bite them.


Rgds BUSGO

"TAKE MY ADVICE"
I'm not using it anyway!

[Fat Busa Racing 1347]

Still in the back of there shop in pieces. I think it's getting sold

of in the used fleet when they get that one sorted out....

Regards Richard

You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike. Paul Teutul,Sr. American Chopper

[Maj750t]

Dirtbags had a problem with an 05, fixed under warranty i believe, as Rod is no longer with us you will have to search the archives and hope its not in the unrestorable topics.

[fasterfaster1]

Know of at least 5 ......and one was a repeat performance
FF1

[bad boy busa]

This is interesting as John Phillips (aka Warranty Manager@Suzuki) says that they have never had a problem with a gearbox from a Busa ever in all the years they have been in production.

Faster....Can I contact you if I need some specicfics?

[rev 01]

Bad Boy

What model ?

How many K's ?

What failed ?

Is it just jumping out of gear ?

If so, what gear ?


The early models had a habit of jumping out of 4th & 5 th.


This could be cured in some cases by replacing badly worn rod ball ends (causing lost motion) & adjusting the gear shift lever & being more positive with the foot action. Other worse cases needed gear dog undercutting.

Some riders have broken the selector drum by not using the clutch on down changes as well.

[bad boy busa]

Rev...K6...Jan delivered...24,000kms

Second and third jumping out of gear under load (i.e.on throttle)...Feels like fuel cutting out...

Apparently Dogs worn and selector bent...

[Timj]

Mine was doing the same in 2nd gear. If they are saying there have been no problems in Australia tell them that they are liars, I took them to fair trading too but was still outta pocket at the end of the day. But yer, go for them I say.

Good luck.

[fasterfaster1]

Also know of several "gearbox's" for sale ........ 1 is s/hand and has 1st and 2nd gears undercut in excellent condition and another that is a full set of new gears at around a K when full price is $2,400.00 to replace is pretty good price

[rev 01]

That is very disappointing to have those serious problems at so low a mileage BB...

I've never had any problems buying second hand bikes .....maybe all the bugs have already been fixed

Except for my old 99 busa. The back torque limiter on it was problematic from the start .......but hey........rider technique was the apparent culprit. All those years riding every conceivable bike out there & I never realised I was a technically deficient rider..........ah well....you live & learn

Then there's the depreciation

I'm on something else now

[imagunna]

HI BBB
Have you tried reading the reports on the USA web ?
www.hayabusa.org.
Go to the forum page and then look in the segment -busa problems. There are quit a few items in there re gearbox probs. and owners having the same warranty problems with suzuki. Problems with 2nd and other gears.
Worth a look- hope it helps.