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Viff6N Mutated Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N
Posts: 8,704
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That thinks that anything sold with an engine (motor is electrical silly) should automatically come with a Service manual? I'm not talking about the 20 page booklet crap.
I read countless threads with someone that doesn't have a FSM and the first post from someone is, "Go buy a FSM." I can understand if its a used bike and the seller didnt give it to you but a dealership should just handle it over to you just like they do the bill. |
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Elitist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Moto: Gix 750
Posts: 11,351
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Why should they help you work on your own vehicle? I don't know about bike dealerships, but at car dealerships the profit from parts & service usually equals or exceeds the sales department's.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 11,022
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Viff6N Mutated Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N
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I cant completely trust the 3rd party books since they still wont correct important things on my vehicle. Even after countless people have emailed them pointing it out.
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![]() Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Central NY
Moto: 2003 SV650S
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nope - I'd rather they come separate... tons of people don't have the first clue about working on an engine so they're better off letting someone else do it
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Viff6N Mutated Warrior
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
Moto: '01 Honda VFR 800 & '09 ER-6N
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Just cause they get the fsm doesnt mean they are gonna work on it. Its an instruction book just like you'd get with any thing thats electrical/mechanical. But I'm sure every person on here NEVER reads the instructions.
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Location: Hill Country TX
Moto: Pasta Rockets
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AMA Supersport
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: '04 Kawasaki ZX6RR
Posts: 3,392
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I read my owners manual for my bike cover to cover before I brought the bike itself home. I also bought the factory service manual and used it to help remove the forks off my bike since that was the whole point in having it, to help me.
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With MORE TYEstosterone
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: TX
Moto: '12 KX450F / 08 YZ250F #512 / 07 KX65 #1
Posts: 1,429
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I don't much trust the previous owners expertise on my vehicles, so whatever I can do to look and check it over, I will.
With that said, the only service manuals I think there should be available, is for download online for free. I got spoiled being able to get the ZX10s manual so easy, to which point, it was a BITCH to get the CRFs online. |
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Trip's Assistant
![]() Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Imported from Detroit
Moto: 2009 HD Street Classic
Posts: 12,149
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I don't agree. There are plently of mc owners that have no right working on bikes. They would just f something up. Fruther there are some that just wouldn't want it. Guys who take their bikes to the dealer for everything.
That being said, I own a SM for all my bikes. But here's a big kicker. HD sells 3 books for every model line. A service manual, which will tell you how to do all the mechanics and take things apart. A electrical diagnosis manual, which helps you go thru all the electronics. Lastly, a parts manual, which just gives you part numbers for every piece on the bike. I buy the first 2 for each bike, at..... $60 a crack! |
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