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Originally Posted by Gilps
The best bet seems to be to negotiate the price of the service when buying the bike. If you dont, you will be faced with a £200+ bill.
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That is pretty much the size of it...
I know some dealers are giving £200 off the list price of their bikes (which basically amounts to the 1st service free), but you ought to be able to nigotiate that sort of money off anyway - if you are paying close to list, then use a 'free' first service as a deal sweetner at least...
I know dealers who have been doing S2R's otr for £5700 - but then of course you'll get the first service bill a month later...
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PS. As Gilps says - DUK now specifiy a set job sheet for the 1st service that dealers are meant to follow, with an allowed labour time of 3.5 hours - of course I wonder what exactly it is they are actually doing for all that time - maybe doing up all the bolts the factory forgot to torque or something? - but you are meant to have a service sheet that shows everything has been done at least...