12,000 mile service. On bread and water now!

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Donners
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12,000 mile service. On bread and water now!

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As I'll be ditching the train and commuting into London on the silver dream machine from next week, I took it to Doble Honda for a 12k service yesterday. As it's the first service since I've owned it (and it didn't have a service history) I thought it best to take it to a Honda dealer.

Ouch! £360 for the service and to replace the steering head bearings. So much for saving money by not getting the train!!

How much do you guy's pay for a service? Dobles charge £45 +VAT an hour labour, so it was £189 labour, £120 for parts and £50 VAT.

They did throw in a £7 can of Wurth chain wax for free though!!!!!
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Post by Stratman »

Always done my own servicing, just use the dealers for the more technical stuff or where I don't have the right tools, but that sounds about par for the course.
Two bikes, still only four cylinders!

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Post by lee67 »

another sucker bites the dust, do all my own, and if im not sure i use bob's garage services :D ..used to use dealers many yrs ago, but prices got silly
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Post by warby221 »

I’ve always done my own servicing, repairs and rebuilds for two reasons

I don’t trust paid mechanics to do a job better than me and im a tight
fisted git who needs to get his wallet surgically opened
:D :D :D :D
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im a tight
fisted git who needs to get his wallet surgically opened
lend us a fiver :lol:
Two bikes, still only four cylinders!

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Post by warby221 »

Stratman wrote:
lend us a fiver :lol:
Know a good surgeon then do you ???? :P :P :P
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warby221 wrote:
Know a good surgeon then do you ???? :P :P :P
hi iam Nick Riviera, M.D.

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who needs the walletecomy 8O

:D :D :D :D
wheres the road kill............?
iam hungry!!!!!
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lmao_37 wrote:
warby221 wrote:
Know a good surgeon then do you ???? :P :P :P
hi iam Nick Riviera, M.D.

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who needs the walletecomy 8O

:D :D :D :D

lmao :D :D :D
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