Wednesday 27 August 2014

15,000 km service

It's that time again.  The Joymax has reached its 15,000km service at just over 16 months old.  Major items that needed to be looked at were:

  • Rear wheel bearings - these were apparently some of the worst the mechanic at the dealership had seen and were begining to affect the oil in the gearbox etc.
  • Rear brake disc - had this replaced as it was developing a lip on the outer edge.  I'd thought the grinding noise from bearings was partly down to dodgy brake pads / disc.  Turns out the pads were fine and the disc probably didn't need replacing yet.  Oh well, I've got a spare...

Other than the above the bike just had a regular service including the following items:

  • Rear Brake Disc (sourced from SYM) - £76.95
  • Carriage Costs - £5.95
  • Sundries - £3.00
  • Workshop Oil (0.80 ltr) - £5.20
  • Gearbox Oil - £3.62
  • Environmental Charge - £3.50
  • Labour Charges - £43.00
  • Vat @ 20% - £28.24
Total Charge: £169.46

Still waiting for my replacement front mudguard from SYM and chasing up the dealership for a replacement exhaust heat-shield that appears to have been damaged prior to me picking the bike up after the insurance repairs.   

The bearings took over a week to show up and the mudguard has been ongoing since mid June.  Bearing in mind this is a bike that is on sale / in production it disappoints me how long lead times are.