Bikes died ?☹

[b1k3rdude]

• In relation to your enquiry, we can advise, that individual parts from time to time, may indeed be subject to some form of evolution. This is part of Yamaha’s policy of constantly monitoring the quality and performance of its components and as such, it is not unusual for a part to be changed or updated at some stage, during or after, any models production.
  
• Whilst we can advise that there is no Recall in relation to the Rotor on your machine and your warranty has expired, we are sometimes able to offer some form of 'out of warranty' assistance. Any requests for 'out of warranty' assistance are generally dealt with on a case by case basis through our UK Yamaha dealer network,
  
• The first stage of the process, is that the owner would arrange and authorise an inspection of their area of concern at a Yamaha motorcycle dealer, also providing them details of their Service History. Subsequently, should the dealer identify and consider there to be evidence of a manufacturing defect, they may then contact our Warranty Department, on behalf of the customer, regarding any available assistance.
  
• In this instance therefore, should you believe that your Rotor is subject to a manufacturing defect, we would kindly suggest, that you please re-establish contact with your local Yamaha dealer to authorise an inspection of your machine and providing them your Service History. After their inspection, should the dealer identify a manufacturing defect with your Rotor and consider there to be the possibility of 'out of warranty assistance' they will then be in a position to contact us with their findings, for our consideration, regarding a replacement Rotor part, possibly at a discounted/special price.
  
• We thank you for your enquiry and whilst at this point we can offer no assurance of assistance, we hope that our comments may at least clarify the manner in which we proceed with machines whose warranty has expired and hope that through your Yamaha dealer, this matter may be resolved.
  

I like yamaha but -

• That is some class-A marketing bullshit right there. Monitoring? the fuckers superseded the part because it had a known major fault with it!!
  
• Because they superseded the part on the fucking quiet. In my exp. normally when a part gets superseded its not drastically different from its predecessor, this was not the case in this instance.
  
• More blah blah copy and pasted marketing/corpo fuckery.
  
• Why the actuall fuck do you need to present a service history, the bike is out warranty. This smacks of classic smoke and mirrors and get out clause - eg the old well you have no service history so sorry we cant even consider helping you fucking bullshit. Fyi even if the bike had never been serviced in its life that would never effect the a known hardware fault present from the day it rolled out of the factory.
  
• 'Should you believe'.... I cant beleive what Im reading here. What complete and utter cunt-fuckery. They know FULL fucking well the part in-question has a major fault, otherwise the part would never have been superseded with a noticeably different part.
  
• And there we go..... falling back on the final exit clause. Pushing the responsibility on to the dealer. If Yamaha aren't going to do fuck-all, then why the fuck would the dealer do so, cunts.
  

Rant over.

And as you suspected, the discount would be no where near the £215 for the pattern part.