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ok SO! I am checking to see if anyone else has had this problem or if this is a known prob by Suzuki...bc my dealership isnt owning up to it. I checked the recall and warnings on the Suzuki website and didnt see anything about the 08SVSF.
About 2 months after riding my bike I started riding it to work. So I come out one day and see a droplet under my bike. Like you would see with an oil leak on your car but much smaller. it was under the right side of the bike. I touch it and smell it, it had the smell and consistency of an oil/fuel mixture. So OF COURSE I start freaking out bc this is a brand new bike, still under 600 miles! I ask a couple of the boys to come out with me and look and they say the same thing - oil/fuel mix. But we cant find where it is coming from!
So I go out one day and I am talking with another coworker about it and I am like 2 parking spots away and I see what look like drops that are about to come off the bike so I run over to see where its coming from and I touch it and...its on my ******* underbelly faring and WHATEVER the mix is, it has started to eat away at the paint! Again I touch, feel and smell and again oil/fuel mix.
I call up my dealership and tell them about it and they come and pick up the bike. The next day I go and grab her from the dealership and they tell me "Dont know where it came from we cant find a problem and we couldnt find the leak." I say ok...what about the fairing, its gonna need to be replaced "Oh lemme see" (guy goes off for a few min & comes bck) "well We are gonna have to get ahold of Suzuki and see if this is a known issue." I explain that its an 08, they have sold ALL of theirs and IF it were a known issue they would have encountered it already before mine since it is now sept/nov. Pretty much I leave there feeling like NOTHING is going to happen about it. But when I get home I notice something...the vent hoses...WERE in FRONT of the cover...NOW they are OVER the cover and held in by the top part of the underbelly of the fairing...I go in for my 600mi svc and same thing. I ask about it again and they say they havent heard anything from Suzuki yet.
What do I think it is?
I think some idiot placed the venthoses in JUST the right spot to where the vapors of the oil and fuel vent hoses condensated and turned into liquid which ruined my fairing which my dealership wont own up to. I dont know much about bikes mechanically but its the ONLY conclusion I can come up with given the facts.
Anyone have any idea or know about this or can back me up in my theory?
About 2 months after riding my bike I started riding it to work. So I come out one day and see a droplet under my bike. Like you would see with an oil leak on your car but much smaller. it was under the right side of the bike. I touch it and smell it, it had the smell and consistency of an oil/fuel mixture. So OF COURSE I start freaking out bc this is a brand new bike, still under 600 miles! I ask a couple of the boys to come out with me and look and they say the same thing - oil/fuel mix. But we cant find where it is coming from!
So I go out one day and I am talking with another coworker about it and I am like 2 parking spots away and I see what look like drops that are about to come off the bike so I run over to see where its coming from and I touch it and...its on my ******* underbelly faring and WHATEVER the mix is, it has started to eat away at the paint! Again I touch, feel and smell and again oil/fuel mix.
I call up my dealership and tell them about it and they come and pick up the bike. The next day I go and grab her from the dealership and they tell me "Dont know where it came from we cant find a problem and we couldnt find the leak." I say ok...what about the fairing, its gonna need to be replaced "Oh lemme see" (guy goes off for a few min & comes bck) "well We are gonna have to get ahold of Suzuki and see if this is a known issue." I explain that its an 08, they have sold ALL of theirs and IF it were a known issue they would have encountered it already before mine since it is now sept/nov. Pretty much I leave there feeling like NOTHING is going to happen about it. But when I get home I notice something...the vent hoses...WERE in FRONT of the cover...NOW they are OVER the cover and held in by the top part of the underbelly of the fairing...I go in for my 600mi svc and same thing. I ask about it again and they say they havent heard anything from Suzuki yet.
What do I think it is?
I think some idiot placed the venthoses in JUST the right spot to where the vapors of the oil and fuel vent hoses condensated and turned into liquid which ruined my fairing which my dealership wont own up to. I dont know much about bikes mechanically but its the ONLY conclusion I can come up with given the facts.
Anyone have any idea or know about this or can back me up in my theory?