Last GSX 14

[Horse]

G'day,
          Did a search and cant seem to find the answer , someone here bound to know. A few times I have ordered parts and told the Stealer its an 08 model ,they have said "cant be" (didn't instill a lot of confidence) was wondering when was the last one off the assembly line , what month and to which country was it exported ( could be in the Suzuki collection in the land of the rising sun I suppose)
            Have a good day/night,

Regards

[KiwiCol]

From my understanding, production stopped in 2007.  Some models were still sitting at stealers in 2008 & 2009 & thus when the registered them for the first time it comes up as new 2009.

Put a pic up & the boys will be able to tell what model it is from the paintwork - assuming it's still std.  There's a thread here somewhere with pic's of all the models & the paintwork, but seeing as I'm at work, better not go looking for it for ya.


***  There was a couple of 2008 versions around, they're not common by any means, think the were done after the production run & have different paint again. There's 1 in UK & Barmy was keen, but it went for silly money.

[Tony Nitrous]

Mine (Very late model Black AU bike) has a build / compliance date of 9/08. The AU Special Edition is an 08 but I've seen a couple of black bikes with later build / compliance dates.

The UK "Final Edition" is only a late UK bike. Aren't they an 06 or similar ?

[KiwiCol]

The info would be on each VIN plate, model & year.  That'd be easiest way to check.

[T250]

Don't know if this helps?

https://www.suzukicycles.org/GSX-series/GSX1400.shtml

[gsxbarmy]

In the U.K. , whilst the last model sold was the K7, the first final edition was actually the K5 - models post the K5 only had cosmetic changes (different paint styles), and I believe this was also true of the K8 Special Edition sold down u def.

So K5,6,7,8 all the same except for cosmetic changes to paintwork.

[Speedy1959]

Its interesting that it states "the aluminum cylinder walls were coated with something called Suzuki Composite Electrochemical Material (SMEC). " from the K5 onwards!!

Does this mean the earlier versions dont have that coating and therefor dont need to have such regular oil changes?

Or have I got it wrong (again)

S.

[KiwiCol]

That'll be the ceramic coating Seth often mentions.

[Horse]

The info would be on each VIN plate, model & year.  That'd be easiest way to check.
[/quoteThe compliance plate on mine is 09/08 but that doesn't tell you the manufacture date (should be close but may not be)with some cars you can decipher the manufacture from the VINumber but don't know about these . I bought it S/Hand and as its black and has the script on the tank not the S symbol (PO could have changed it])it seems like an older model. According to the link supplied final year was blue and white . I was just curious about the last date they were manufactured and how you tell 

[seth]

the (SMEC) coating on the barrels is across all years .
It's how they got the cylinders to be so big without using metal liners(No room for them)
All big cc 4 cylinder motors do this across different manufacturer's where a smaller engine is given a bigger cc.
Yamaha xjr 1300 is a very good example as it started life as an xs1100.
Different manufacturer call the coating different names but it's basically a ceramic hard wearing coating (and the reason for the short oil change intervals)
A friend on mine brought one of the last gsx1400's sold in Scotland it was a k7 but registered in 2008 .
I have seen 2 k7's that have 2009 registrations (the last bikes here k7/k8 and k9 All had k7 paint work).

[Kiwifruit]

Mine is first registered in January 2010. It was a demo bike so would have run with a dealer plate on for a while.
Built date on the plate is 5/08