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Bike won't start after winter storage (even with new battery)
- Thread starter vlocka
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Stuff like this bugs me. It's like a cliffhanger episode on a TV show that then gets cancelled and you never get to find out what happened. 
Stuff like this bugs me. It's like a cliffhanger episode on a TV show that then gets cancelled and you never get to find out what happened.
But sometimes you don't want to know what really happened. Sometime its better not to know.
Only if you're the guy that sold the motorcycle only to find the new owner got it going at the end of your driveway to load it onto the trailer because the only issue was a simple "common problem" type scenario that they fixed in 30 seconds flat....IE a loose ground wire at the frame or something.
If you're the rest of us....we need to know.
Only if you're the guy that sold the motorcycle only to find the new owner got it going at the end of your driveway to load it onto the trailer because the only issue was a simple "common problem" type scenario that they fixed in 30 seconds flat....IE a loose ground wire at the frame or something.
If you're the rest of us....we need to know.
ouch, that's like a sucker punch in the gut, while the opponent is walking away and laughing.
I will admit to having done almost exactly that sort of thing over the years with many different purchases ranging from electronics to outdoor equipment.
There's a lot of things that die from "Common problems" that are easily fixable if you know your way around tools, and how to follow online tutorials. For a few years I was semi regularly buying Macbook pros that suffered from a common onboard video error. I could disassemble one in about 15 minutes to remove the mainboard, you then simply "baked itin the oven" (literally) for a very specific amount of time at a very specific temperature just to liquify the solder enough to re-seat the problem chips, and then put it all back together. Boom, "Broken" laptop bought for $50-$100 was worth $600 again.
I never fixed things in front of the seller though just to watch them wince....but I'm pretty sure in the case of things with engines, it's happened before.
Goes the other way too... had a mint YX600 that I really liked. Enough to pay out of my own pocket to get the metallic paint job fixed on the gas tank after I damaged it, and to have the seat professionally re-covered after it tore. I never kept any bike as clean since. Sold it to a guy who had a memorable name...
...years later, there's a guy I run into at work whose name rings a bell for some reason. Get to talking and yup, it's him. Asked how he had gotten on with the bike, to find out that he ran it out of oil and blew the motor. (If you're reading this, friend, I don't hold it against you) Was bummed to learn my specific bike had died, but also that a bike that I greatly enjoyed turned out to be a negative experience for someone else
...years later, there's a guy I run into at work whose name rings a bell for some reason. Get to talking and yup, it's him. Asked how he had gotten on with the bike, to find out that he ran it out of oil and blew the motor. (If you're reading this, friend, I don't hold it against you) Was bummed to learn my specific bike had died, but also that a bike that I greatly enjoyed turned out to be a negative experience for someone else
A friend bought a VW diesel many years ago which was suffering from an intermittent random no-start, cheaply, because it didn't start when he was visiting the seller. He knew, and I knew, that the problem was a rather infamous "Relay 109", a new and updated version of which was a $20 part, and replacement involved opening the fuse box, unplugging the old relay, and installing the new one.
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