:spank: I've had a really bad encounter with Honda's corprate office and a dealership this week. Story begins with a odd occurence with my clutch. At 55 MPH my clutch without warning took a dive on me. I have around 3100 miles and I've had it since April. I drive it on the weekends and never done anything to abuse or hurt my bike. Its a 2006 VTX 1300 S, Looks great but like I said before clutch is something to recon with. I have gotten no where with both the dealer and corprate, I have to fix my own bike even with the extended warrenty and everything else. I am very dissapointed that a brand new bike breaks for no apparent reason but Honda wont back there product. Just a warning for anyone who has a freak part break that shouldnt, dont exspect Honda to back you up. :nope:
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I'd re-visit the whole situation with them--if you bought extended warranty, is the clutch breakdown/failure excluded from it in writing? Also, from further reading your post, appears you are well within the one year full warranty if it's an '06 and only has 3100 miles on it. Were you first owner or did you buy it used? Obviously a dealer could tell if you'd been hard on the clutch (like doing burnouts, because your rear tire would show the signs of that). If not, then they sure as hell should be repairing/replacing it. You can find aftermarket clutch kits at a pretty reasonable price, and the service manual or some of the websites have some pretty good info. on doing this.
Sorry to hear about your problems and hope it works out for the best.
Sorry to hear about your problems and hope it works out for the best.
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Better yet, have an attorney write to them.
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You never said what broke on the clutch. Was it a plate/ plates, spring/springs, cable, whole clutch basket, or other. I'd like to know what the culpret is so we can all be on the look out for a defected part. Please post again when you find the source of the problem. I would get it in writing why they wound not fix the bike. And contact your lawyer.
You never said what broke on the clutch. Was it a plate/ plates, spring/springs, cable, whole clutch basket, or other. I'd like to know what the culpret is so we can all be on the look out for a defected part. Please post again when you find the source of the problem. I would get it in writing why they wound not fix the bike. And contact your lawyer.
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