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I was supposed to pick it up today and was told the news last night that I wasn't ready and that his mechanic isn't back until end of August.... he has ordered in a new switch and its due in the shop on Tuesday but after reading other posts on different forums about indicators am not sure it is the switch could it be something else and if so, that's another few days to wait for a new part to come in etc.... the leaves will be falling off the trees soon and am bike less and also very impatient!! ____________________ Dellabella |
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Get your deposit back then go and buy something that doesn't have electrical gremlins. |
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I am happy with my choice of bike just not the dealership.
What is OP? Old age pensioner??? ____________________ Dellabella |
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Thankyou for your replies ____________________ Dellabella |
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I read all of the replies, thankyou ____________________ Dellabella |
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Dellabella wrote: | I am happy with my choice of bike just not the dealership. |
No you aren't.. you haven't even taken delivery yet and the ruddy thing's already 'broke'.... As other's have said, cash-out & go buy something that doesn't need fixing... even before its turned a ruddy wheel from brand new!
Keeway is a generic chinky bike; they are notorious for poor quality control, low reliability and high maintenance, intended for developing asian markets with low labour costs where they can afford to put in the time they didn't in the factory.
THIS little indicator issue is an indication of likely things to come... yours has 'broke' before you have even ridden it from the ruddy shop! It is likely it will keep breaking, and you will spend as much time at the dealers as on the bike, until the warranty runs out, and then it will be down to you, and whether you will pay what you didn't to get a YBR in ongoing repairs to not have a YBR or the performance of a YBR or the general lack of hassle of a YBR, or resale value of a YBR.
The 'indicators' are all there... CASH OUT! Get your money back, and buy a 2nd hand BR that doesn't need fixing before you even get out the shop! Better still, stick a few hundred extra towards a new one that shouldn't need fixing for a fair long while and has a warranty that you may have some extra faith in....
Dellabella wrote: | What is OP? Old age pensioner??? |
No that would be OAP.. OP is you, 'Original-Poster'... or perhaps in your case 'Oblivious-Punter' ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Thank you for your very long post, read it and re read it and have noted some of the points.... Just a quick question though.... have you ever owned a Chinese bike as this will be my second Chinese import, the first was a Builit which was Chinese parts but assembled in Belgium, had it for a year, never broke down, no problems what so ever and a real head turner only sold it as wanted a cruiser style hence why I've gone for the Keeway Superlight, have watched you tube reviews, have spoken to owners of this bike and apart from a few teething problems they were mostly very pleased with the performance of it, also read a good report from MCN on them too.
I have never used a forum before so I didn't know what OP meant, I wasn't being funny, I genuinely didn't know what it meant.
I am wondering if I would of been talking about a Suzuki or Yamaha, I would of got more helpful advice. ____________________ Dellabella |
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I'm sorry to pile on, but the gestalt is correct. You're being given fair warning about the amount of support you can expect from that dealer. This is before they have all your money, remember.
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but count it as a lucky escape. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Dellabella wrote: | have you ever owned a Chinese bike |
Yes.. amongst many of many national origins in the forty years have been riding and fixing the ruddy things....
In consequence I see an awful LOT more than I would ever own, usually wheeled into my yard by over-optimistic youngsters, hoping I can perform a miracle for them, 'cos the paid mechanic at the top of the road had the audacity to suggest he'd have a 'look'.. but charges £30 an hour, so that look would cost them as much as a new battery before he begins totting up parts and labour for whatever may be 'wrong' with it..... and he's the 'helpful' one who actually WILL look at Chinky bikes....
Next door but one neighbour's lad is latest in a very long line... "But'z owNlee two years owld! Downt iven need MOT yet..."
To which he did NOT like the comment "Just as well, 'because it wouldn't pass one!"
Incidentally, I started my professional career as an engineer working for a company that made light and other switches for cars..... SERIOUSLY I have seen better made Christmas cracker toys than the low grade switch-gear clamped on the handlebars of most chinky-bikes to pass under my gaze!
I am pleased you had a more pleasant experience with your last one; it IS possible,,,, if your expectations are low enough...... My other-half had a reasonably easy time with her Chinky Cruiserette... though it was through the grumbles she had with that, and being fobbed off by err.. oh yeah... dealers... that she unfortunately met me! Thing was 'cheap'.. it started on the button each and every time for over two years... and that about exhasts its good points...... 55mph top speed was rather dire.. fine around town... 'just' but when she was trying to get cross-country from my house to hers, the risk of an Audichoch enema was rather wince-worthy!
Lights that randomly decided to stop working... that sounds familiar.... she made it home, 20 miles down dark winter country lanes once, thanks to a White-Van-Man taking pitty and playing 'Link-Boy', and crawling along at 25-30mph lighting her way for her, checking she was still following him, until they reached street-lights!
Biggest 'issue' she had with that bike apart from meeting me.... was every time she tried talking to a 'dealer' she got treated as a 'Dumb Woman'... rather than any 'help'.. and even that peculiarly reliable example still gave her plenty of cause to try talk to them!
You haven't even got to ride the thing yet, and that 'problem' has already started.
I say it time and time again... IF you know enough to live with a Chiky bike, you should know enough NOT to buy one in the first place... they are NOT 'cheap', and i the long run, when dire residual value is totted up, they cab prove an expensive way to have more hassle and less performance than buying a YBR... which incidentally IS also built in China..... it is just subject to a Japenese QC regime and comes with a dealer support infrastructure that can be depended upon...
This is NOT Chinky-Bike-Biggotry... it is simple sound advice.... IF you dont wish to heed it that is your prerogative....
Dellabella wrote: | Advice wanted please |
THAT was what you asked for... dont start moaning you dont LIKE the advice we have all offered, because it's not what you wanted or hoped for, by way of some-one offering the ctrl-alt-del super-cheat you need to magically rest the dealer and sort your problems without inconvenience, hassle cost or delay....
Dellabella wrote: | after reading other posts on different forums about indicators am not sure it is the switch could it be something else |
No.. not really.. what do you 'hope' the 'something else' could be? The circuit comprises of a light bulb, a switch, a battery, and to make it flash a 'flip-flop' relay... there ISN'T very much else it COULD be!
And what are you hoping to do if there might? Take delivery without Pre-Delivery inspection and NO warranty, and try sort it for yourself? From 'advice' off another forum, that 'suggests' there may be something else that could case mystery problem. but doesn't actally say what? Or how to fix?
Dellabella wrote: | the leaves will be falling off the trees soon and am bike less and also very impatient!! |
Which is EVEN more reason to heed advice offered by so many, so far... DON'T BUY IT! Go get a YBR!!!!
If you haven't got the know-how, if you have't got the patece to DIY your ow fault finding, if you get 'frustrated' by the dealer suggesting a ten-day delivery delay, REALLY you do NOT have the patience or where-withall to live happily with a generic Chnky bike! I say it time and again; IF you know enough to live with one, you probably know enough NOT to even try!
BUT... what the heck, its your money, your choice... if you don't like the answers we have offered here, go see what you get from the forum that makes you think that there must be some mystical voodoo alternative answer, and that that will solve your problems for you.... You know its the same sort of 'consumer choice' as NOT buyig fro a dealer who doesn't give you the answers you preffer! ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 280 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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