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Tourer
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From: New Jersey
Are you running a upper belt guard? If not, take a pic of the rear shocks and lower shock mounting bolts.....you may have either lowering blocks installed or shorter shocks that are allowing fender to contact the belt under compression......Most of us will be able to tell by looking at a pic....
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Intermediate
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From: Rochester
Yeah, there is an upper belt guard on there. As far as i can tell everything is stock on the bike. They are going to come & get it Monday morning to take it back to the dealership and take a look at it. I looked at it again just now and noticed when i moved it forward, the belt had about 6" of it covered in some type of fluid. Im beginning to think she might have major issues.
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Something really wrong there. Never have seen wear like that before. Please post what they find out. I had over 100k miles on my belt & replaced just for the heck of it, probably could have gone another 50k on it.
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From: Rochester
Well the dealer found nothing wrong with alignment, nothing inside or outside of the case that would cause dragging on the belt. They did honor the warranty, which is half the part cost & half the labor cost. So all in all, a brand new belt, gaskets, & labor for $300. I guess it couldve been worse. They did tell me that they took it in on trade 2 days before i bought it & only changed the plugs, wires & a new front tire, therefore its possible that it could of been like that from the previous owner. I definitely will keep an eye on it. Thanks for all the replies, i really appreciate it!
Road Warrior
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From: Bay area, CA
Well the dealer found nothing wrong with alignment, nothing inside or outside of the case that would cause dragging on the belt. They did honor the warranty, which is half the part cost & half the labor cost. So all in all, a brand new belt, gaskets, & labor for $300. I guess it couldve been worse. They did tell me that they took it in on trade 2 days before i bought it & only changed the plugs, wires & a new front tire, therefore its possible that it could of been like that from the previous owner. I definitely will keep an eye on it. Thanks for all the replies, i really appreciate it!
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Get your money back
Well the dealer found nothing wrong with alignment, nothing inside or outside of the case that would cause dragging on the belt. They did honor the warranty, which is half the part cost & half the labor cost. So all in all, a brand new belt, gaskets, & labor for $300. I guess it couldve been worse. They did tell me that they took it in on trade 2 days before i bought it & only changed the plugs, wires & a new front tire, therefore its possible that it could of been like that from the previous owner. I definitely will keep an eye on it. Thanks for all the replies, i really appreciate it!
In any case this should have been caught and changed prior to delivery.
Last edited by Antonio Balls; Apr 1, 2014 at 06:42 AM.
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