Good friend with an M8 getting dealer installed Stage3

[Don D]

WOW!!!  $3000 labor is stout!!!  About double what it ought to be 

$2250 US

[DeneFLHR]

I would send the guy to Russell up in Nanaimo to do the work and tune before I let the guys at Barnes touch my motor.
That's just me though.
Rob

Rob, it's warranty that is the issue here, not quality of tune.
In the end we'll see how it runs as it was completed the other day.

[CndUltra88]

I would send the guy to Russell up in Nanaimo to do the work and tune before I let the guys at Barnes touch my motor.
That's just me though.
Rob

Rob, it's warranty that is the issue here, not quality of tune.
In the end we'll see how it runs as it was completed the other day.

Good Morning DeneFLHR, I'll apologize now.

I read the original post and understood the concerns of your buddy and warranty concerns.

But, I wouldnt take my bike to a Car Dealership mentality that is posing as a Harley Davidson Dealership.

Nor would it seem did the Victoria Police Dept either.

When they had the fleet of Police HD, they would ship them to Trev D in Vancouver for service...

Enough of my rant about the only (authorized)shop you guys have on the Island.

I'm sure he will be happy with his decision just dont tell him about my opinion thats all.
Ride often and have fun.

Rob

[DeneFLHR]

I would send the guy to Russell up in Nanaimo to do the work and tune before I let the guys at Barnes touch my motor.
That's just me though.
Rob

Rob, it's warranty that is the issue here, not quality of tune.
In the end we'll see how it runs as it was completed the other day.

Good Morning DeneFLHR, I'll apologize now.

I read the original post and understood the concerns of your buddy and warranty concerns.

But, I wouldnt take my bike to a Car Dealership mentality that is posing as a Harley Davidson Dealership.

Nor would it seem did the Victoria Police Dept either.

When they had the fleet of Police HD, they would ship them to Trev D in Vancouver for service...

Enough of my rant about the only (authorized)shop you guys have on the Island.

I'm sure he will be happy with his decision just dont tell him about my opinion thats all.
Ride often and have fun.

Rob

Don't worry Rob, I agree with you totally and it wouldn't have been the road I would have chosen either.
Nothing good has ever come out of their shop and the two-bit salesman are out and out liars.
I still would've argued how they can charge my friend 3hrs to dyno his bike with the Street emissions based tuner.
Can't wait to get a chance to ride it as I thought my Fuel Moto stock mapped SGS is was more perky than his Stage1 M8 was last season. I wasn't impressed at all.
I will post back on how it did turn out.

[DeneFLHR]

Bike delivered back the other day and when we went to see how it sounded we started it immediately idled at 2500.
I felt this was hard on a stone cold motor and we shut it down.
My friend, (the owner), said the dealer said cycle the key switch 5x as every hi power Stage 3 motor they build does this, ( totally normal for power builds Barnes Harley said).
After cycling key, start bike and it will idle in normal range.
I wouldn't be happy doing this every cold morning. My last motor was a 124/121 107" and if I remember mine went to about 1350-1400 max then quickly came down. My other friend with a 2013 117" CVO thinks his is about 1400rpm.
Was this an error when they dyno tuned it with the SEPST?

[Hossamania]

If he is supposed to cycle the key five times before he starts it every time it is cold just so it runs normally, then hell yes, something is wrong.
If every stage 3 build from them does this, and they think this is normal, then they should not do any builds.

[koko3052]

Yup.....sounds like a GREAT shop.....they all do that!