What did you pay for the First Service
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I agree with the above. I did take my Tiger XC in for its first service because I needed the recall remap done and I had a couple of other small things to be done under warranty. The bill was less than $250.00. But I am doing the second service myself - as I do on all my bikes.
Does the warranty not become void if you don't have it serviced at a registered Triumph dealer, I know its like that here
lol Only if it gets backed up over by a truck 
I know here we have to take it to a dealer for warranty this is why I always do this even for an oil change until the warranty period is over
I know here we have to take it to a dealer for warranty this is why I always do this even for an oil change until the warranty period is over
Shame poor guy
That is funny! Not funny that a truck backed over your bike, though.
Dave, here in the states, servicing the bike yourself or taking it to an independent shop does not void, by law, void the warranty.
Well then you guys are lucky as it cost us big time this is why I always purchase a car with a service warranty
Thanks for the feedback guys! I usually go to the dealer for the first one, and then the subsequent oil and filter changes are on me. I will probably bring it back for the valve adjustment when that time comes.
The dealer did say that I needed to use Synthetic, which i think is just a gimmick if I change it often enough.
Thanks
Tom
The dealer did say that I needed to use Synthetic, which i think is just a gimmick if I change it often enough.
Thanks
Tom
I disagree about synthetic as gimmick.
1. Synthetic oils hold their viscosity much longer than traditional oils. Heat breaks down the viscosity modifiers fairly quickly in traditional oils. You can easily get 5000 miles before the viscosity of synthetic oils are appreciable affected. This is especially important in air cooled engines tuned to run lean (lean = more heat) in order to meet emission and mileage standards.
2. Synthetics give proven superior wear protection.
3. Synthetics do not conduct heat as well as traditional oils, thus the oil coolers on bikes. The trade off is the much better viscosity.
My wife had oil pump go out and she rode the bike until the engine seized. There was minimal damage to the engine. That would not have been the case with traditional oil. That was all the proof I needed to demonstrate the value of synthetic oil. I have three modern bikes and I run synthetic in all of them. I run traditional oil in my vintage bike. I strongly suggest synthetic for your Tiger.
1. Synthetic oils hold their viscosity much longer than traditional oils. Heat breaks down the viscosity modifiers fairly quickly in traditional oils. You can easily get 5000 miles before the viscosity of synthetic oils are appreciable affected. This is especially important in air cooled engines tuned to run lean (lean = more heat) in order to meet emission and mileage standards.
2. Synthetics give proven superior wear protection.
3. Synthetics do not conduct heat as well as traditional oils, thus the oil coolers on bikes. The trade off is the much better viscosity.
My wife had oil pump go out and she rode the bike until the engine seized. There was minimal damage to the engine. That would not have been the case with traditional oil. That was all the proof I needed to demonstrate the value of synthetic oil. I have three modern bikes and I run synthetic in all of them. I run traditional oil in my vintage bike. I strongly suggest synthetic for your Tiger.
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I think I see someone in need of a ROTELLA T "learners" discussion............ Sorry, Carl-B.C. I just COULDN'T resist.
OK - so as I take this thread someplace elseWhat is the Rotella connection?
Rotella T is simply the name of Shell's diesel oil. It is a longstanding and proven diesel oil. Shells makes Rotella T in both regular oil and synthetic oil versions.
It just so happens that the additive packages in diesel oils - and the lack of friction modifiers - are very similar to the additive packages in motorcycle specific oils. These additive packages include wear inhibitors which have been greatly reduced or removed from automotive oils and some motorcycle specific oils. For example Mobile 1 has removed the wear inhibitors from the Mobile 1 motorcycle oils. Mobile 1 changed the additive package in thier motorcycle specific oils about two or three years ago and the new additive package is not nearly as good as the former package.
EpicMale (Doc)
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I've been down that road. And your statement is accurate up to a point. Routine maintenance and service can be documented with receipts and other forms of documentation. Oil changes and simple inspections are easily documented. But if you start doing major maintenance (valve adjustments for instance) be ready to prove your mechanical competence. Though I am not an attorney, I do know that a manufacturer can simply refuse to honor a warranty, and force YOU to take them to court or wade through hundreds, or even thousands, of hours of bureaucratic paperwork. You can then easily spend more than the cost of a moderately priced motorcycle trying to get warranty work done.
On our trucks, during the purchase process, I inform the dealer that we do all our maintenance in house, using employees with many years or even decades of experience as mechanics. At the same time, I note that during our inspection and maintenance processes (more rigorous than the factory schedule) if we note anything out of the ordinary, we will point it out to them for their evaluation. In the last 30 years, there have been no problems getting warranty work done.
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