You can go out buy pretty much any car today for around $25,000 to $35,000 and it will run for 10 years with few problems. HD keeps making nearly identical models, nearly identical motors and identical transmissions year after year and they still can't get it right. I think it was a big mistake to switch the assembly of CVOs to the general assembly line.
Most of the failures have nothing to do with the difference in where the parts are bolted on, it's the crappy parts and designs themselves. Sadly, Harley has spent most of it's time on cheapening the parts and processes to pad the bottom line, and that usually results in quality problems. When you have a business that has very little competition, I guess you can get away with overcharging for poor quality products, and then thanks to a very short warranty getting to make even more money selling repair parts either directly to the customers, to repair shops, to dealers, or indirectly to the ESP folks. If someone would come up with some true competition for Harley, they would have to change their ways or fade from the scene. Not everyone is willing to keep paying more and more for less and less quality. I still believe their days are numbered, because I don't see the younger generations being willing to accept the same crap us old folks have.
Jerry
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Topic: Bearing bad @ 9 miles (Read 1827 times)