It coulda been worse
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It coulda been worse
We normally put close to 30K a year on the bike. For one reason or another, this year the wife and I haven't been able to take one longer ride. Yesterday the stars finally aligned and we took off for a few hundred mile ride. Low and behold, about half way to our destination the battery light and check engine light come on. It's about 100 miles to the closest HD dealer and I'm thinking "Crap, now it's all screwed up".
I stopped at a truck stop rather than go on until the battery left me stranded on the side of the road. I called Flow (Progressive) and told them I needed a tow. By 1 PM I'm at the HD dealer. They checked it out and said the stator was bad. The trouble was they couldn't repair it until Wednesday of next week. I've got to be back at work 200 miles away Monday and I was sweating it. Then one of the HD employees said too bad you didn't buy it here, We give loaners to people if the buy the bike here and leave it for service.
It just so happened that I had bought it at that dealer. A little later we're one the road again with a CVO loaner. Just got back home and we'll ride back next weekend to pick our Limited up.
It coulda been worse. Flo picked up the tow and the dealer supplied the CVO for a week.
I stopped at a truck stop rather than go on until the battery left me stranded on the side of the road. I called Flow (Progressive) and told them I needed a tow. By 1 PM I'm at the HD dealer. They checked it out and said the stator was bad. The trouble was they couldn't repair it until Wednesday of next week. I've got to be back at work 200 miles away Monday and I was sweating it. Then one of the HD employees said too bad you didn't buy it here, We give loaners to people if the buy the bike here and leave it for service.
It just so happened that I had bought it at that dealer. A little later we're one the road again with a CVO loaner. Just got back home and we'll ride back next weekend to pick our Limited up.
It coulda been worse. Flo picked up the tow and the dealer supplied the CVO for a week.
Last edited by rkoivisto; Jul 15, 2018 at 05:22 PM.
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New bike? I've got 136,000 miles on it! This is the first stator I've had to replace too.
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Old Fort in Fort Smith, AR. They have a sign in the service dept that if you bought the bike there and had it in for service, they would supply a loaner for you. Not many places would do that. When the bike was newer, I had it in for service and had to wait on some parts. I put a few thousand miles on their loaner and they didn't seem to mind.
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