So I'm fresh back from the dealer and I'm not sure how to feel.
I get there before they open and he gets me in first thing. Notices right away the scoot has been dumped. Long story short on day 7 of ownership I was practicing in a parking lot and while making a U turn it just slipped out from under me. I thought at the time what the hell just happened. A few scuff marks including on on the exhaust heat shield. Well right away, the mechanic saw this and says, this has been dumped, it's probably not going to be covered under warranty. He's sure the stress of it going down caused the bolt failure and subsequent stress fracture of the pipe. I explained that it happened day 7 and I've rode 500 more miles without incident. Also it went from running fine to complete separation in a matter of 5 miles. Didn't matter to him, he'll have to show the bossman (his brother by the way, a family business). So they decided to replace it and show Kymco and see what they say. I told them that if Kymco didn't cover it I wanted to contact them to talk to them about it. So they started working on it and left me to the showroom (video coming by the way). While in the showroom I pointed out that all of the 2014 scoots have paint marks on the exhaust bolts but the 2013's didn't. Wonder if this has been an issue??? I'm not feeling to keen at this moment with this whole pseudo bait and switch thingy going on here. I wait for an hour and 15 minutes and he comes out. I start asking about items for the scoot, Shad box, temp and tach sensors, etc. He mentions that the heat shield is gray now instead of polished stainless steel and I could care less. So I tell him, if there's an issue with this and I end up having to pay for this exhaust, I want the original back so I can weld it and use it for a backup. Mechanic said fine but he didn't think there would be any issue with it. HUH? What changed from before he started working on it? I sign a piece of paper so that they can get their $75 labor from Kymco and I'm on my way.
So what just happened? Well I got my exhaust like they said but it didn't quite happen like I thought and it left me feeling a little weird about the whole situation. What do you say? Thinking I should let let it go and run my new exhaust and forget about it.
Now just waiting on some muscle so I can unload it from the van and it'll be time to ride.
