10-06-20, 08:33 AM 
		
	
	
		My advice is to keep the pressure on Yamaha. Make yourself such a (polite) nuisance that they'll replace it just to get rid of you. A frame is not a regularly replaced part, 13 years is well within normal use age of a motorcycle, and the issue is well-known factory defect. 
	
	
	
	
	
