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Called the dealer. Of course they are saying "bring it in" which is what I plan to do. Bad news is before I even get it there they are telling me it's within Harley specs aka "normal" to use 1 Quart every 1500 miles! WTF??????????????????? You have got to be shhhiiitttiiinnn me!!!?
Called the dealer. Of course they are saying "bring it in" which is what I plan to do. Bad news is before I even get it there they are telling me it's within Harley specs aka "normal" to use 1 Quart every 1500 miles! WTF??????????????????? You have got to be shhhiiitttiiinnn me!!!?
When I worked for Toyota, they claimed 1 quart every 1,000 miles was normal, so HD is not alone in providing an oil burn-off spec that seems excessive to normal people.
Hope you get your bike fixed, and I'm looking forward to hearing what the resolution was.
Called the dealer. Of course they are saying "bring it in" which is what I plan to do. Bad news is before I even get it there they are telling me it's within Harley specs aka "normal" to use 1 Quart every 1500 miles! WTF??????????????????? You have got to be shhhiiitttiiinnn me!!!?
Not surprising coming form the dealer. Tell them the problem is not oil consumption, but blowing stinking smoke out and polluting the environment. You can bet this is not within EPA's specs.
I took 2 hrs off work to drive 45 minutes home and another hour to the stealer, then an hour back home just for them to call me this morning and say they can't recreate the problem and that they can't find anything wrong and that the plugs look good.
Well whaddya know... I guess I just make fuggin shiit up and enjoy taking time off work to go wayyyyyyyyyyy out of my way to take the fuggin bike to the fuggin stealer for the fuggin fun of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so know I gotta go there myself and recreate the problem (yet again out of my way another 2hrs off work, yadda yadda, yadda) just for them to decide if its smoking or not and to decide what oil burning smells like. what a bunch of azz clowns the stealers are...
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