adding coolant ?
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I changed fluid about 200 miles ago at 30K miles. I'm riding today bar-hopping. I checked it before I left home and it was at the same level it was the day I changed it. I must have done a good job bleeding it!
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From: Lake Orion, MI
I purchased my bike in Sept 2013 - now have 32,000 miles on it.
I do check the coolant - probably once a month or so now. Have never lost any. When the bike was new, I checked it more frequently based on what I read here about coolant.
I do check the coolant - probably once a month or so now. Have never lost any. When the bike was new, I checked it more frequently based on what I read here about coolant.
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My coolant level has not dropped at all since new ('14 Limited). Never used a drop of oil either. I'm wondering now if the oil pump and the coolant pump have ever worked.......hmmmmm. Great.
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Originally Posted by '14 Limited
My coolant level has not dropped at all since new ('14 Limited). Never used a drop of oil either. I'm wondering now if the oil pump and the coolant pump have ever worked.......hmmmmm. Great.
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From: Rolla
2015 Limited with just over 21,000 miles, and not a single issue.
I am not naive enough to think something isn't going to break or wear out.
It is a machine and parts will wear and need replaced.
And of course as we have read here, there are some that have been unlucky enough to have stuff break long before it should have.
I don't care who the manufacturer is, some parts will fail too soon.
But the vast majority will not have issues.
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From: Vancouver, WA
Agree 100%
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If you want to find something bad enough, you will. You have to take what you read on the forums, as information. Nothing more than that.
I can imagine what the forums would have looked like if they'd existed back in the 1930's- Damn Knucklehead, what was the MOCO thinking? They shoulda stuck with the F heads. Etc..... Same group probably complained when the went from cable to hydraulic brakes, from drums discs, when they finally took off the kick starter, you name it.
Look it it this way. When someone hits the big win on the Powerball, they focus on that person, not the tens of millions who bought tickets and didn't win anything.
I can imagine what the forums would have looked like if they'd existed back in the 1930's- Damn Knucklehead, what was the MOCO thinking? They shoulda stuck with the F heads. Etc..... Same group probably complained when the went from cable to hydraulic brakes, from drums discs, when they finally took off the kick starter, you name it.
Look it it this way. When someone hits the big win on the Powerball, they focus on that person, not the tens of millions who bought tickets and didn't win anything.
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If you want to find something bad enough, you will. You have to take what you read on the forums, as information. Nothing more than that.
I can imagine what the forums would have looked like if they'd existed back in the 1930's- Damn Knucklehead, what was the MOCO thinking? They shoulda stuck with the F heads. Etc..... Same group probably complained when the went from cable to hydraulic brakes, from drums discs, when they finally took off the kick starter, you name it. .
I can imagine what the forums would have looked like if they'd existed back in the 1930's- Damn Knucklehead, what was the MOCO thinking? They shoulda stuck with the F heads. Etc..... Same group probably complained when the went from cable to hydraulic brakes, from drums discs, when they finally took off the kick starter, you name it. .
