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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Jim Douglas wrote:
> I would not do anything till the warranty is expired as it may void
> something? I forget what the warranty is on mine which is also
That is a common urban legend, spread by Kawasaki service managers who love telling
people not to work on their own bikes because it will "void the warranty". There is
something called the "Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act" which basically says that the only
time work you do to your bike "voids the warranty" is when your work causes the problem.
If the manufacturer offers a warranty (which Kawasaki does), any manufacturer's defect
must be covered under warranty regardless of any unrelated work that you did to the bike.
> a 2008. When I spoke to the Kawasaki service manager he had
> heard of the 'doohickey' but had never seen a problem with it in his 20+
> years working on Kawasaki bikes? He did admit that they didn't
> do alot of service on the KLR and indicated that it was one of
> the most solid Kawasaki products.
I've heard that from lots of Kawasaki service managers, including a local one. A local guy
took his broken doohickey in to that service manager and reports that said service
manager *still* hasn't seen a broken doohickey, because when the guy said he had a
broken doohickey to show the service manager, the service manager ran for the bathroom
and locked himself in so he wouldn't have to see it.
In short, Kawasaki service managers don't see broken doohickeys because they don't want
to see broken doohickeys because broken doohickeys would mean work for them. Note
that warranty work does *not* pay for a shop that's busy -- they at best get cost from
Kawasaki for warranty work, no profit.
-E