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Suzuki AN 400 discussion forum:Big Daddy´s Burgman 400 -- off to a crummy start |
| Big Daddy´s Burgman 400 -- off to a crummy start |
| GarbageManCometh said 2004-08-04 17:56 |
| My 80-year-old dad -- we´ll call him Big Daddy -- recently bought an ´03 Burgman 400 from the local motorcycle shop. This particular Burgman was used, with something like 250 miles indicated on it -- but the sales guys were calling it a ´demonstrator´, telling Big Daddy some fukakda story that it had only briefly belonged to the shop owner´s wife. How many of you guys have heard that one before? ´Not the smartest shopper in the world, Big Daddy made the mistake of telling the sales guys early-on that THAT scooter was EXACTLY what he wanted, and kept coming back day after day. Big Daddy probably figured he was making the sales guys agonize and sweat over making the sale, but you folks and I know those guys are so used to people repeatedly coming in and nosing around -- ´tire-kickers´ -- that Big Daddy was barely even noticed, except perhaps for the word ´sucker´ that he had stamped on his forehead. I´m sure the sales guys knew it was just a matter of time before Big Daddy caved in. In the end, he paid nearly ´list´. Shrewd. After about one month and 300 miles, the Burgman has already developed a starting problem -- it has repeatedly failed to crank, stranding Big Daddy away from home on the most recent occasion. The shop came and picked it up only after a lot of shouting on part of Big Daddy, but now they´re telling him some sob story that they can´t get around to even looking it over for least a couple weeks. ´Any ideas on what might be the problem, other than the new, maintenance-free battery? My experience is that wherever a retailer can identify a ´sucker´, they usually stick it to him really good wherever expedient. He pays the most -- gets the least, invariably meriting the LEAST concern. This seems to be very much the case as to how Big Daddy is being treated here. I therefore find myself wondering to what extent the ´sucker treatment´ has been applied here. How difficult would it be to alter an electronic odometer reading of say, 1200 miles to the 250 miles indicated when Big Daddy plunked his money down? Perhaps it would more do-able to zap-out or otherwise reset an electronic odometer´s mileage reading back to ´zero´, then run it back up to 250 miles over a few months of test rides to fictitiously-yet-plausibly re-designate the unit from ´used´ to ´demonstrator´ status. So long as the buyer doesn´t ask to see any paperwork reflecting proof-of-mileage prior to sale -- which of course Big Daddy didn´t bother to pursue -- then the lie works better than the truth. I sold new Infiniti cars for a few months. Particularly toward matters such as this, the dealer approach was repeatedly -- invariably -- even more dishonest than I´d previously imagined. I´ve no doubt this motorcycle shop is no different. It´s therefore not a matter of whether or not the motorcycle shop WOULD roll back or reset an electronic odometer. I´m certain they would indeed. It´s only a matter of whether or not they COULD. So my question is, how difficult would it be to either alter or reset an electronic odometer? I thank you for any answers, observation and / or commentary. |
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