Rear spindle overtightened, pretty annoyed.

Went to adjust my chain on Saturday as it is stupidly slack after 1400 miles of silly riding over the past few weeks, and I just couldn't undo the nut. Haven't touched it since I got the tyres changed a few weeks ago, but it's stuck solid. Now they've either done it up ridiculously tight or just used some super strong thread lock. Borrowing a breaker bar to try and release the beast sometime this week as my thin little bar I had just bent(yes it was a piece of crap)! If it doesn't work there's going to be one majorly annoyed (but probably still polite) customer appearing at their shop asking why the feck it's impossible to budge! Won't be using them to change the tyres on my bike in the next few weeks when they need doing!

What's the worst thing that's been wrong with your bike upon bringing it back from the garage?

[flymo]

I picked up my CBR600 from a service years ago. I'm a bit of a perfectionist if I'm honest and this thing was spotless, very very clean. I used to replace nuts, bolts whatever each winter and it was like new.

Anyway, after its service it looked like it had been through a carwash that used copperslip instead of water. Obviously some overzealous mechanic with a copperslip aerosol thought 'somewhere near the fastener' rather than actually on the threads was good enough. It was bloody everywhere.

[Nobbylad]

When I did my Gixxer front end conversion, I took the bike to the local shop for them to service and check over my workmanship. For weeks after I thought the front end was as clunky as the stock front end and was convinced the forks were fooked. Anyway, YC kindly popped in one day and checked the steering and discovered the castellated nuts weren't even finger tight.

Pays to take the rear wheel out and take a loose wheel, I do believe it's cheaper aswell. Just make sure you do it right yourself when putting it back, keep your spacers handy too.
*touchwood* I havn't had anything awful come back from a garage yet, although I always get a ridiculously over inflated tyre when a new one is fitted.

A few days & about 100 miles after my 600 Hornet had its first service, I gave it a quick checkover & found the oil level was about a pint short.
The only response I got from the dealer was... "all engines use oil sir".

Originally Posted by Drumming_Animal

Pays to take the rear wheel out and take a loose wheel, I do believe it's cheaper aswell. Just make sure you do it right yourself when putting it back, keep your spacers handy too.
*touchwood* I havn't had anything awful come back from a garage yet, although I always get a ridiculously over inflated tyre when a new one is fitted.

Was getting my brakes serviced front and back too as I didn't really fancy doing it myself so just thought it would be easier to drop the bike off. I'll learn from my mistake now!

Sounds like there's some dodgy places out there.

Where did you take it buddy?

My rear wheel spindel nut was overtightened when I got the sv and the metal plate just turned with the nut scratching the swing arm

two words ....

impact & gun

[Wideboy]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

two words ....

impact & gun

is what half the tire shop spacs use to put them back on.

i did a 270 mile trip to go camping on the t'ace after a new rear, all the way thinking "this back end feels odd"..... upon arrival i decide to inspect the wheel bearings to see that only one adjuster had been put back onto the stop and the other was over 1/2 inch forward

i usually check everything but i had no time