Dealer fitted fork seals

[Chrisl]

Would you believe it, I dropped my bike into a main dealer to have the fork seals changed, mot and a pair of tyres fitted, this was 2 weeks ago..
Due to holidays I picked the bike up today and just before riding away I checked the forks to find that there was oil leaking past both dust covers...

I spoke to the service chappie again and he got the guy who did the job to look at the forks, initially he thought the leakage was grease- wrong!
Wheel the bike into the workshop, wait 15mins
The next theory was that the original dust seals were reused and may have been impregnated with the original oil leakage - wrong!

Now they are assuming that the technician must have damaged the seals when fitting them and are doing the job again.
They did say when I was at the counter that there was signs of pitting but as long as the bike isn't not ridden "sports bike " fashion this pitting would not touch the seals and the technician had checked this.

It seems that despite taking the bike to a dealer I can't  rely on a proper job being done, good job I didn't ride away !!

[Hooli]

Now that's crap, it's not even a difficult job to do!

[Snapey]

If I was to get work done on my bike the last place I'd take it to is a dealer, but even a dealer mechanic should be able to do fork seals. Anyone worth his salt usually has his own business although a lot of them are shonky too. In saying that, there are good mechanics out there but finding them is the hard part.

[Mick_J]

That's shit, what sort of dealer cant change fork seals, it's not a difficult job.  I wouldn't trust them with anything more demanding.

[Del]

I think that part of the issue is the seals - dealer seals are so expensive to buy that they sit on the shelves for a long time and can start to dry out - I fitted a set of O/E seals and they lasted about 6 months before they started to seep 

[Chrisl]

Hell, it's a wonder they get through the warranty period.

I have been very lucky and have always had new bikes until the 1400 came along, never had to get fork seals done before

I love my 1400 so better get used to it.

[Hooli]

I used O/E seals when I last did my forks, about five years & many miles ago. They are still fine, aftermarket ones seem crap & miss one of the sealing rings out.

I wonder if the dealer genius* fitted them upside down? as they have three lips, two for oil & one for dirt.

[Chrisl]

I'm beginning to wonder whether they did them at all, kinda strange that both new seals are leaking.
Will ask questions about what seals were actually fitted

[seth]

Did the bushes and seals on emma's 1400 forks this morning along with new oil total cost was around £60 plus my time(free) .
Dealers are rip offs and you can't trust most of them .

[V_i_c_i]

I'm beginning to wonder whether they did them at all, kinda strange that both new seals are leaking.
Will ask questions about what seals were actually fitted

I have some problem with OEM seals few years ago. I change them three times by weekend  Kanerdog 1x1 have same problem too. From that time I use ONLY SKF seals (skf kitg-46k) and no more problem with leaking forks. But they are 2x more expensive than OEM seals.

[Notty]

Did the bushes and seals on emma's 1400 forks this morning along with new oil total cost was around £60 plus my time(free) .
Dealers are top offs and you can't trust most of them .

will have to find a dealer to do mine this year 

[KiwiCol]

I hear Frouds Suzuki do a very reputable job, think they're pretty close to you too . . .

[gsxbarmy]

I hear Frouds Suzuki do a very reputable job, think they're pretty close to you too . . .

Ruislip to Bristol......hmm I wouldn't call that pretty close Col, got to be at least couple of hundred miles....

[KiwiCol]

Well he stores his stuff there, so figured he must be close - anyway, the bike could do with the run.

[Notty]

Well he stores his stuff there, so figured he must be close - anyway, the bike could do with the run.

12 miles to Froudy's store