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Originally Posted by Erik_G
Gives 2 follow up questions:
) How may hours did it take the workshop to come to the conclusion that it needed nothing at all ?
2) What was the cost for that ?
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Far less than my KLR had cost by the same point in its long, generally reliable life.
I'm not on this thread to debate the relative merits of doing your own work vs. hiring it out. At this point in my life, doing my own work is much more difficult than it used to be (various arthritic body parts, a few chunks of metal where used to be bone and flesh, some spine surgeries, bad eyesight), and it costs me more in missed work opportunities (self-employed) than it could ever save in shop charges.
I've done my own mechanical work quite a bit in the past, starting with my first car, a 1967; I do very little now. And while I complain as loudly as everyone else about the increased complexity in everything around me, I also notice that everything aside from household appliances generally runs better, longer, and with fewer repairs. Oddly enough, much of it is even cheaper in constant dollars.
I might see it differently if working on motorbikes was my idea of a good time. It's not--I'd rather ski, mountain bike, hang with friends, and ride. YMMV, naturally.
Mark
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