Service Concerns

[Busa Greavett]

service handbooks recommend observing critical 1st service at 1000ks, thats too long i think ,after your initial run in ride , piss the oil off & put a new filter in, then take it to your local rip off centre for the 1000k service

I took my K8 to local shop for it's first 1000kms service, under the belief that they would do what's best for my new bike.

When got home, thought it was a bit strange that it didn't take him all that long, and seeing as it was the first one they had serviced, should have taken him a bit longer, especially as the fairings are a little different to get off.

Looked at the fairing, saw that they hadn't put it back properly and it was stressed due to not being put back into it's proper postion (rubber mounting hole) but thought, at least they've had it off!!

Continued to take the fairing off myself, to learn how bike comes apart for my servicing. Was amazed at the lack of oil staining on the exhaust under the filter......???

Been a car mechanic since leaving school....and I've never seen an exhaust which sits underneath an oil filter so clean and oil free.
There wasn't even a splash of oil around the bottom of the filter, suggesting that it had been changed. You would have to be a surgen to get an oil filter off without staining, even slightly the hot exhaust!!


The oil had been done, for sure, but the filter....no way!!! Very dissapointed, especially as I got charged for an oil filter!!!

No more dealer servicing for me, doing everything myself, right down to the valve clearances...because I know....there is no way in this life time any dealer mechanic is going to spend the right amount of time to get them right, much less even take the cam cover off to check them!!!

It's bullshit....trust NO ONE!!!

They make such a hoo haa about warranties and special servicing, what a load of crap. I would say, even if you aren't mechanically minded, most on this site would spend the time and do a better job!!