2005 Kingpin nagging problems

Hm, not sure who to blame with some nagging problems with my 2005 Kingpin.

Seems the chrome by Victory could use a little help. The ends of my forks
are chromed and in less than a year the chrome was cracked and peeling. Was
told "no problem, covered by warranty". Well it seems that the warranty did
cover that but at the same time I was told that the rotor to my front break
was scored and needed to be replaced. When I got the bike back the left side
of my forks were leaking fluid. Well just took it back in to have that
fixed. Now I am told that the front break pads are worn again [less that
2,000 miles] but additional news. The pads are worn because the break
caliper is bad, the back side of the caliper isn't moving. Just to make sure
that things don't go to smoothly each time I have taken it in I have had to
wait for parts. Chrome replacement, waited two months, new rotor didn't come
with bolts to attach it, three weeks waiting for bolts. Forks leaking fluid,
another three weeks waiting for seal set. Now I need a new front break
caliper, bet they don't have that in stock either, wonder how long I'll need
to wait for that???

grdøg wrote:
> Hm, not sure who to blame with some nagging problems with my 2005 Kingpin.
>
> Seems the chrome by Victory could use a little help. The ends of my forks
> are chromed and in less than a year the chrome was cracked and peeling. Was
> told "no problem, covered by warranty". Well it seems that the warranty did
> cover that but at the same time I was told that the rotor to my front break
> was scored and needed to be replaced. When I got the bike back the left side
> of my forks were leaking fluid. Well just took it back in to have that
> fixed. Now I am told that the front break pads are worn again [less that
> 2,000 miles] but additional news. The pads are worn because the break
> caliper is bad, the back side of the caliper isn't moving. Just to make sure
> that things don't go to smoothly each time I have taken it in I have had to
> wait for parts. Chrome replacement, waited two months, new rotor didn't come
> with bolts to attach it, three weeks waiting for bolts. Forks leaking fluid,
> another three weeks waiting for seal set. Now I need a new front break
> caliper, bet they don't have that in stock either, wonder how long I'll need
> to wait for that???

Bummer. Is this dealership or moco do you think?

I just rode my TC down to Medicine Lake in Cal. with some friends last
weekend. On the way back home, I came down a long winding downgrade on
Hwy 66. By the time I reached the bottom, my motor sounded like a
handful of ball bearings were loose in the crankcase. Ran good and
eventually the noise went away, but still...

Bike ran okay on the ride, got 35 to 40 mpg. I say "to 40" because I
checked my odometer on Hwy 66 at mile marker 48. The odometer said 48.6
and that sounds okay, except that when I started up 66 I already had 5.3
miles on it.

*sigh* Hope the bike holds up during the long trip I'm planning in July.

--
John Corliss BS206

"John Corliss" <jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote in message
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> grdøg wrote:
> > Hm, not sure who to blame with some nagging problems with my 2005
Kingpin.
> >
> > Seems the chrome by Victory could use a little help. The ends of my
forks
> > are chromed and in less than a year the chrome was cracked and peeling.
Was
> > told "no problem, covered by warranty". Well it seems that the warranty
did
> > cover that but at the same time I was told that the rotor to my front
break
> > was scored and needed to be replaced. When I got the bike back the left
side
> > of my forks were leaking fluid. Well just took it back in to have that
> > fixed. Now I am told that the front break pads are worn again [less that
> > 2,000 miles] but additional news. The pads are worn because the break
> > caliper is bad, the back side of the caliper isn't moving. Just to make
sure
> > that things don't go to smoothly each time I have taken it in I have had
to
> > wait for parts. Chrome replacement, waited two months, new rotor didn't
come
> > with bolts to attach it, three weeks waiting for bolts. Forks leaking
fluid,
> > another three weeks waiting for seal set. Now I need a new front break
> > caliper, bet they don't have that in stock either, wonder how long I'll
need
> > to wait for that???
>
> Bummer. Is this dealership or moco do you think?
>
> I just rode my TC down to Medicine Lake in Cal. with some friends last
> weekend. On the way back home, I came down a long winding downgrade on
> Hwy 66. By the time I reached the bottom, my motor sounded like a
> handful of ball bearings were loose in the crankcase. Ran good and
> eventually the noise went away, but still...
>
> Bike ran okay on the ride, got 35 to 40 mpg. I say "to 40" because I
> checked my odometer on Hwy 66 at mile marker 48. The odometer said 48.6
> and that sounds okay, except that when I started up 66 I already had 5.3
> miles on it.
>
> *sigh* Hope the bike holds up during the long trip I'm planning in July.
>
> --
> John Corliss BS206

I'm thinking it is a combination of the two. Brakes worked
fine and the forks didn't leak until they did the work to replace
the chrome on the forks. Dealer blames Polaris for the wait
for parts, although I don't feel any of the parts I needed were
something that wouldn't normally [or should be normally]
carried in stock. So even if the dealer is correct in saying
that Polaris is being real slow in sending them parts I feel
these are parts that they should carry any way. Of their
present line up of bikes as far as I can tell the Hammer does
have the double front rotors and all others have the same single
front brake, so why wouldn't you carry all needed brake parts
when there are only a choice of two? I don't know how many
more choices there are if you cover the earlier CC's, SC's, and
TC's but it still doesn't seem to be a lot of parts for them to carry.
I can understand the chrome forks not being in stock but while
there someone came in looking for a battery for his Kingpin and
they didn't have that either, they did have a dozen batteries but
not one for a Kingpin and again I don't see that the Kingpin would
take a different battery from any of the other present model bikes,
the bikes are to much alike.

Good luck on your trip in July because that "motor sounded like a
handful of ball bearings were loose in the crankcase" sure would
shake my confidence, that's a sound that just cannot be good.

grdøg wrote:
>
> Good luck on your trip in July because that "motor sounded like a
> handful of ball bearings were loose in the crankcase" sure would
> shake my confidence, that's a sound that just cannot be good.

Believe me, my confidence is shaken. And there's absolutely NO reason
why that motor should be having the slightest trouble other than that I
used Delo 10-40 for 1000 miles. If the motor is that sensitive to oil
type, then the bike is going to go. That is, after I shell out who knows
what for repairs.

--
John Corliss BS206

"grdøg" <grdog@lycos.com> wrote in message
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>
> Dealer blames Polaris for the wait
> for parts, although I don't feel any of the parts I needed were
> something that wouldn't normally [or should be normally]
> carried in stock. So even if the dealer is correct in saying
> that Polaris is being real slow in sending them parts I feel
> these are parts that they should carry any way.

I understand what you aare saying, but don't forget, it comes down to the
numbers. f the dealer sells just a handfull of a certain part in a year, he
won't be stocking them.
Greg

Greg O wrote:
>
> "grdøg" <grdog@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:RtKdnTzVnNYLreXbnZ2dnUVZ_uejnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>>
>> Dealer blames Polaris for the wait
>> for parts, although I don't feel any of the parts I needed were
>> something that wouldn't normally [or should be normally]
>> carried in stock. So even if the dealer is correct in saying
>> that Polaris is being real slow in sending them parts I feel
>> these are parts that they should carry any way.
>
> I understand what you aare saying, but don't forget, it comes down to
> the numbers. f the dealer sells just a handfull of a certain part in a
> year, he won't be stocking them.
> Greg

I ordered a new rubber pad for the kickstand on my '05 Touring Cruiser.
When I got it, the fricking thing didn't come with the rivets! I asked
the dealer to order some and he told me that I'd have to order it in a
pack of 20 sets.

The dealer isn't responsible for this idiocy, Polaris is.

--
John Corliss BS206

"Greg O" <goo1959SPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "grdøg" <grdog@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:RtKdnTzVnNYLreXbnZ2dnUVZ_uejnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> >
> > Dealer blames Polaris for the wait
> > for parts, although I don't feel any of the parts I needed were
> > something that wouldn't normally [or should be normally]
> > carried in stock. So even if the dealer is correct in saying
> > that Polaris is being real slow in sending them parts I feel
> > these are parts that they should carry any way.
>
> I understand what you aare saying, but don't forget, it comes down to the
> numbers. f the dealer sells just a handfull of a certain part in a year,
he
> won't be stocking them.
> Greg
>

I do understand not only the "numbers" but also space available. A smaller
dealership wouldn't have the physical room to stock a number of parts. At
the same time I think some common sense can be used in looking forward to
what parts are likely to be needed. If the entire inventory of what you sell
only uses two type of breaks then it makes sense to stock one of each. At
the same time it isn't all the dealers fault as when they replaced the break
rotor, the rotor was delivered with out the needed bolts to attach it. How
does that make sense?? but again when that happened one of the people there
told me that when employed by another dealership [not Victory] they had the
same problem.

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