Things have settled down for me a bit, yesterday, I had a long conversation with my local dealer, Kymco Parts came up, among other topics. His primary purpose of coming to my office, was getting my stamp & signature for his final recording plans for a new dealership he is building, a project that has been 1½ years i the works (5 years if you include the other locations that never made it thru the planning/zoning process)
I have been waiting for ball joints and a wheel bearing, 4 months now, for my UXV450i (the half shaft it needed arrived in 3 weeks) with no projected arrival time, and my K-pipe, they do not want to rebuild the motor, instead, just put in a crate motor, that they haven't even been able to place on order
He told me that he will become a squeaky wheel, and I should too, they were having similar issues with Polaris, one of the other brands they sell, and parts for Polaris have started to flow again.
and, at the same time, they will look into other sources, they don't routinely use, and possibly even custom machining at a local machine shop
