5000mi. Service...can I do it myself?
Road Captain
Joined: Sep 2007
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Do it yourself, it's easy
Check out this video.
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/1...le-oil-one.htm
Peter
Check out this video.
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/1...le-oil-one.htm
Peter
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Joined: Feb 2008
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From: Pittsburgh, PA
Do it yourself, it's easy
Check out this video.
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/1...le-oil-one.htm
Peter
Check out this video.
http://www.expertvillage.com/video/1...le-oil-one.htm
Peter
Last edited by ezriderpgh; Nov 30, 2008 at 11:59 AM.
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From: Third Coast, South Texas
Buy the book, tools and parts and do it yourself. I paid for the 1, 5 and 10k before I wised up. About $1200 for those 1st 3 oil changes. Just did my 20k and spent about $100 in parts and thats using syn 3 oil and the high dollar plugs.
That 20k service at HD was $454 plus tax so I saved $350 or so.
Okay, not gonna lie. I spent the $350 saved on other HD stuff I didn't need.
That 20k service at HD was $454 plus tax so I saved $350 or so.
Okay, not gonna lie. I spent the $350 saved on other HD stuff I didn't need.
Road Captain
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Lakewood, N.J.
I was at my HD shop last Saturday and the question came up about providing your own service. The real question was, how do you prove that the oil and filter you bought went into your Harley? I guess it comes down to a matter of trust. But if HD has to cover a warranty issue which could be traced back to a service problem, I wonder if the trust will be there?
I'd rather do it myself, keep records and receipts. At least I know it's done correctly.
If I knew how to upload Excel file, I would share the Maintenance Schedule that I have. Maybe someone else has it. It was posted on here a while back. Really nice for recording your work.
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2008
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From: So. Calif.
Organize your records. Buy a 8 1/2 x 11 spiral notebook and use it to log all your repairs and services and scotch tape in your receipts and repair invoices on the pages. Go through and number all the pages. Keep it in chronological order with dates and mileage.
Add in notes about your trips, or performance issues, questions to remind yourself to ask the dealer or the forum, etc. You can even take pictures, print them out and tape them in. Paste the maintenance schedule inside the front cover.
It will be a nice record to have to remind you of what you did to the bike and it also documents your maintenance. Since it is a continuous record, probably with an intermix of dealer invoices showing mileage and dates with your own dated entries, it will back up your credibility if you ever have to "get legal" with someone over what service was done.
Add in notes about your trips, or performance issues, questions to remind yourself to ask the dealer or the forum, etc. You can even take pictures, print them out and tape them in. Paste the maintenance schedule inside the front cover.
It will be a nice record to have to remind you of what you did to the bike and it also documents your maintenance. Since it is a continuous record, probably with an intermix of dealer invoices showing mileage and dates with your own dated entries, it will back up your credibility if you ever have to "get legal" with someone over what service was done.
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Road Captain
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Lakewood, N.J.
After uploading it change the file extender "txt" to "xls", the file should be renamed to "MaintSched.xls". After that is done you will be able to open it with Excel.
MaintSched.zip unzip this file to get MaintSched.txt then rename to MaintSched.xls
