26-02-21, 07:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-02-21, 07:51 PM by Dudeofrude.)
(26-02-21, 07:01 PM)coffee link Wrote: Seen it all now,I ordered oil & filter on line and it came today in a fucking cardboard box! it's called a lube cube and you push a perforated part of the box and pull this moody top out which is attached to a polythene bag of oil then pour it out.To be fair it did work ok with my lovely wife holding the funnel but it all seemed a bit cheap and cheerful to me,it's supposed to be good for the environment so I suppose we'd better get used to it.
Yeah my last lot of oil came like that. Found it a bit of a faff doing it on my own as you have to either keep the spout out of the box or just take the full bag out.. neither way works well with 1 hand while your holding a funnel ?
Tickles me anyway.... better for the planet, yeah unlike the 4litres of dead dinosaur inside of it ?
Anyway a continuation of my saga. The bike was collected last night and taken to the garage. I received a call from my mechanic this morning. He didn't go as far as admitting it was a fault from his end but I think he's happy to agree with my logic that they were the last people to touch it and it hasn't been ridden since. So anyway he has taken the cover off, fitted a new gasket, 3 new bolts then topped up the oil. He has then cleaned and degreased the whole bike for me (including some special tyre degreaser on the rear?♂️)
Now as a gesture of good will he is looking into the charging issue for me for free and if its something he can sort without parts then he's not going to charge me (although it's not in me to accept work for free so I will still pay him for collecting and dropping of the bike at least)
So fingers crossed its something simple but seeing as the stator, rotor and battery are less than 9 months old and have only been used for probably 4 hrs max I can see it being something else expensive ?