Re: Servicing methods, what do you do?
 

your not still taking your bike to the same place after last time are you?

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Best case, nothing.

Worst case, burnt valves, frazzled valve seats. Maybe holed pistons, siezed motor.

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cheers

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Took mine for new tyres and MOT recently, to an independent garage that had been recommended by a few friends. Turn up to collect, it's sailed through the MOT, has lovely new tyres and a bill for £80 more than I expected.

I ask "how do you get it to that much?", he says "tyre, MOT and service" shows me receipt where service items are listed. I was ****ing hopping mad. First thing I think is, he's taken out the expensive oil I'd put in, and charged me £18 for new oil, then I see he's charged me £5 a pop for spark plugs too. Can't remember how much he'd billed the filter at. Thing is, the oil hadn't been changed, neither had the spark plugs, I'd serviced the bike a two weeks previous, oil, filter and spark plug were all replaced in that service. This guy had gone to the trouble of wiping the filter clean on the bike, but on close inspection, you could see traces of dirt on it.

I knew from pre-checks, that at the time, both front callipers had a piston each with a blown dust seal and one had a sticky piston causing the wheel to drag ever so slightly. IMO, This should have been an advisory, but no.

Best way, do it yourself. As Mattco says, you understand your bike better, and I'm with YC, when you do it yourself, you tend to go the extra mile.

If you can build an Ikea wardrobe, you should be able to do most maintenance tasks reasonably well. Try it - it's rewarding. Best bit is, with what you save, you can build a great collection of tools.

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Agreed. I now for some reason have a 150litre compressor though:confused:

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Sweet! Where'd ya acquire that?

Keep your eye out for a metal lathe if there is more stuff going :-D

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Some little company thought it was a fake (chinese crap) for a bit but hmm maybe not, capable of spraying - just never got round to it! Primered some bits but not much else, don't even use it for my tyres cause I can't get to the fecker! Wait til my garage is clear I'll have a fully decked out workshop :cool:

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Even chinese crap supplies air :-D

Spraying, depends because you don't want oil in air.

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Oh yeah - it's oil free. Made by sealey.
Trying to think of uses for it other than spraying, tyres and impact wrenches. (don't really have a use for airsaws etc on bikes)

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Impact wrench is enough reason to have one, and blowing brake pistons out, blowing carbs out, general de-dusting.

Little die-grinder, ace. Degreaser gun is nice. Cut off tool sometimes useful. Air chisel also good 8)