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Originally Posted by shakazulu12
They are coming off of warranty and while the reliability problems might not be huge, the services costs are astronomical.
Someone posted that a 15,000 mile service ran almost 8,000 or something to that affect on one of the ducati forums, and this was just a routine service. If anything blows up you might as well buy another one, if I remember correctly a new motor is over $30,000.
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I saw that post but I think there were some unusual/non routine aspects to that service visit.
In a way, assuming things are routine, one has four years until they cough up some money for a scheduled service. I mean, I just had the 24 month service completed. A year from now, the 36 month service will be billed to Ducati. Two years from now, or at
48 months, I will foot my first bill. The 48 month service is the same as the service I had today (Very involved). Ducati was billed $375. I can live with a $375 bill two years from now. A year later at 60 months the service visit is less involved than the 24 (today's) or 48 month service. I will be able to handle it
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Of course, if things break or prove unreliable after next year's 36 month anniversary, then I might have to dig deep, but regular service? No sweat. FWIW, the bike has been utterly reliable the past 24 months, and I ride the thing hard.
Or am I "misremembering".
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