Thread: $600 for an oil change?

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

This thread reminds me... do our own services on our farm bikes now but send them in for brakes, bushes etc but last year we sent 3 DR200s into town to the local dealer to be serviced and got the call they were ready to pick up a couple days after. Shot into town and picked them up. Came back to the farm and one of the boys was at the dairy shed waiting for his bike so took his off the trailer and away he went. Two minutes later get a call "boss my bike not working" so drove the 1km or so he'd gone to take a look. Bike was seized solid and had no oil in it. Had a look at the other two still on the trailer and same thing. They'd drained the old oil out of them, put new filters in them, and then fucks me what happened after that, must have been lunch time or something. No new oil in any of them. I now don't let suzuki touch any of our bikes, including our Kingquad, if it needs a mechanic it goes to Honda.

That is a serious piss me off. Bit like what the local did to me, it's not event he fact that they make it right it's the fark around and the lost time and the fact you can't trust them any more if you did take something back.