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Hopeless AA!
Last week i was 200 miles away from home, my bike was left outside overnight in the pouring rain and in protest refused to start the next morning :-(, so i rang the AA cos id run the battery down trying it, after all i have been paying then handsomely for over 10 years without calling upon their services.
The guy turned up 40 mins later so that was good. Then he announced he didnt know bikes!! Well, as you've probably worked out i dont know bikes either, only been doing this a couple of months so the outlook wasnt good. It was turning over fine, with assistance from his battery, just not firing, so his diagnosis was that it was damp causing the trouble. Well, even i'd worked that out!! Luckily i knew how to get the seat off and lift the tank to get to one of the sparks for him to start fiddling and he reckoned that it was due to that plug only having a weak spark, couldnt get to the other cos of all the plastics. So anyhow, he drove me across town where i had to cough up £14 (gulp) for 2 new plugs, which made no difference. At a total loss he phoned his 'biker' mate for advice who told him what you are already thinking and i now know - WD40!!! It started instantly, thankfully. What i dont understand is why the AA offer motorcycle cover and then not train their employees to carry out even the basics. I looked at their site and apparently the only bike specialists they have are on the M25, what about the rest of us? I feel like complaining cos without his 'mate' it would've ended up in a bike shop costing me a small fortune. Anyway, hopefully im starting a bike maintenance course in October so this shouldnt happen again!! Sorry, rant over :-) |
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sory to hear this.. come renewall try NCI rescue, they have alway sent dedicated bike guys with long wise beards and a book of stories to entertain during repair or being towed.
A Regular squirt of WD 40 should keep the plug areas ok during bad weather, if you ride in very bad rain fit a fenda extenda or carry wd 40 with you. |
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First thing i did to the bike was fit a fenda extenda, and from now WD40 is staying in my tank bag when im away and ive bought a waterproof cover too! :-) Renewal due November, will look at NCI, ta x
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Yes of course i did :-)
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Not the first tale of cr@p service from the AA, although most breakdown companies are not overly bike friendly. Often depends if they sub the work out and then who turns up. Also be advised that should you need the AA to recover you after an accident, they may not do so.
Oh, and a small tin of WD40 will fit under the seat. |
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hehe just checking, did he spray the wd40 in the airbox or did he use it on the plugs? :scratch:
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A couple of years back one of the AA chappies tries convincing me to join up, so i quizzed him over the whole "will you be able to fix the bike" issue, and he admitted that everyone he knew was only trained on cars and wouldn't know for sure how to work on a bike, or even have the right parts on board for a roadside repair. His take on the whole thing was "we just get a trailer and take you home / to a dealer"
Thanks for the tip re NCI - I'll have a look at that |
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