This past weekend at Delmarva Bike Week in Ocean City, Md. my bike **** the bed. The check engine light and battery light both came on. The volts showed 12.5 and never increased while riding. Luckily, I was close enough to the Rommel HD vendor booth. I dropped it off, explained the problem and hoped for the best.

Within hours, I received a call back telling me it was the stator that went bad. (A 2009 with 28,000 miles on it). They flatbedded my bike 40 miles to their shop in Seaford, Delaware.
The next morning (Sunday, mind you) I received a call with pricing and details about the job.

By 3pm, my bike was complete, new HD stator, new gaskets, new battery, synthetic primary oil, flatbed (40 miles) all for $859.00. I thought the price was resaonable considering the amount of work it takes just to get to the stator.

I'm curious to hear what other's have paid for their stator replacement?

 

I lost my stator (2006 Electraglide) about 4 months ago. Was about 10 miles away from a dealer in Dallas. Cost me right at $550. They comp'd the trip to trailer it; and I didn't need a battery. Aftermarket stator was only 6 months old and replaced during an engine build last summer. Biggest ***-chap was it cost me an $80 taxi ride from the dealer to the house that nite.

 

We left Kansas City last Friday on the backroads heading to Kentucky and Tennessee for an entire week of riding on our 2000 FLHTPI. On some 2-lane in what looked like the middle of nowhere in southeast Missouri, my check engine light came on and voltage dropped below 10. I grabbed the brake and pulled in the first driveway I could. The bike died as soon as it stopped and didn't have enough juice to even restart. I tore the bike down looking for an easy fix, but no luck. The guy at the house where we stopped came out to lend a hand and eventually just went and got us the phone number for the closest dealer.

We ended up being 33 miles from Lawless Harley in Scott City, MO. They immediately sent out a truck and enclosed trailer to the rescue and took us and the bike back to their service department. They pulled a tech off whatever he was doing and got him right on it. Within a few minutes, they told us the stator died. I was quoted $600 plus the tow and to expect to be there for 3 hours. With no other options, I told him to get on it. The tech had it finished in 1 hour and 20 minutes! Then came time to pay, total came to $432.29 and they didn't charge me for the tow.

From the time they picked us up and we were back on the road again was just a little over 2 hours. They really saved our vacation and weren't terribly hard on the wallet. We got to the Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky that night and stayed until Sunday when we rode into Tennessee. Stayed with friends that night in Knoxville and rode the Devil's Triangle on Monday. Monday night we checked into Moondog's cabin in Sevierville, TN. Tuesday we rode the Foothills Parkway, Tail of the Dragon, Cherohala Skyway and visited Bald River Falls. Wednesday was Cade's Cove loop (bumper to bumper and miserably slow) and we rode the new Alpine Coaster in Pigeon Forge. Thursday, we checked out and headed back to Kentucky Lakes to spend the night and finished up the ride home today. Ended up riding in 5 states and the bike never gave us another ounce of trouble.

On the way home, we stopped back by Lawless HD and expressed our gratitude once again. There was a salesman there named Shawn and he had spent the entire time we were there last Friday just visiting with us, showing us his bike, and just generally being a fellow biker. Never tried pressuring us into buying a new bike or anything like that. Visiting with him really made the time the bike was being fixed fly by, and for that, we were very thankful. We treated him to breakfast this morning on our way back through. They were setting up for a big rally this weekend and had food vendors on the premises, so we bought breakfast there and sat and visited for a while before we got back on the road and he had to get back to work. Pretty small dealership there with some really good folks if you're ever in the area.

Cliff notes: $432.29 for new HD stator and labor + free tow, far enough from home we couldn't walk back.

Jay