Great bike shame about the finnish.

[macamx]

Absolutely over the moon with the Glee but somewhat disappointed  with the finish. Just gave it a good clean today and found the dreaded "furring" of some surfaces, brake line banjo's, gear lever and other assorted fasteners. This is most strange as the bike was treated when new with Acf50 spray and grease and the bike was not used during the worst of the weather. My previous bikes were used all year round with the same Acf treatment and suffered no such ill effects.

Geoff.

[UK_Vstrom650]

I have to agree that Suzuki's finish is worse than my previous bikes (all Yammies).

You soon get used to it (or replace with stainless)

[Joe Rocket]

That's the only doubt I've had about Suzukis. My new Glee lives in a damp shed with ACF50 applied of course but it may not survive like the Yamahas I've had before.    

It gets a new garage in a couple of months so I'm hoping slight if any problems from this Winter.  :eusa-whistle:

[UK_Vstrom650]

Mine lives in a garage & is covered in ACF50 and still no help.  My 3 previous yammy cruisers were used throughout winter and showed no signs that the storm does.  Even my brother's Kawasaki VN900 faired much better. Only good thing is it doesn't matter so much on the strom but is still annoying.

[biglad]

I agree with the comments around the finish. Most of my bikes have been older (is 10+ years old when I owned them) and my glee, at 20 months old, probably looks as bad, if not worse, as all of them. I had all sorts of bikes- cg125, cb250n, er5, zzr etc etc. Even though I acf 50 my bike its still not held up as I thought it would. I haven't had a Yamaha  but to my mind Kawasaki & Honda definitely have the edge on build quality.

My bike will suffer on trade in value, as my dealer confirmed, so all I can do is do my best and keep riding!!

[zippy]

hi blokes, I know what your going through and its bloody annoying the bikes bloody good just a shit finish the only way I got round it was to replace a lot of the bolts with stainless and have a few parts powder coated my bikes only just over 12 mths old and you should not have to do this .I replaced the rear brake pins bolts etc with stainless from pro bolt just for the specialised etc stuff .worth doing if your going to keep the bike (I do like the new Yamaha tracer being a triple engine )
the brake lines go too goodridge they should be doing a full kit by now as I sent them mine  and they kept the originals as samples and I received a full kit for free    5 lines in total
Jason

[macamx]

Thanks for the feedback folks, sorry others are suffering similar problems but pleased it's not just me (if that makes any sense). I would imagine to most right minded people this would be a minor irritation but being a real picky bugger it is hacking me right off. Has anyone tried a warranty claim for what to me seems like sub-standard parts. Bare in mind if you bought a new car and you experienced this sort of thing you would be up in arms and with good reason.

Geoff.

[bosnjo]

I have new Vee2 purchased last September. I live in south of Portugal with 300 sunny days a year, temperture never bellow 15ºC in winter. Bike is parked in my completely dry garage. Few months ago I noticed all black bolts - fairing, front mudguard, side plastics, etc. were all getting white. Tried to clean them but noticed it was oxidation. Since then, I changed all of them and lost the count of how many they were. Had to order new ones from eBay, stainless. And all the bolts on Vee2 are "collar bolts", and those in stainless steel are very, very expensive. I had to purchase non-collar bolts, the same size as OEM ones for each part and then separately the collars, so I wouldn't ruin the plastic parts on my new bike.
I did said something about this to my dealer and his comment was: "Suzuki bolts are stainless... a little bit..." That explained everything.

[Lifebiker]

I don't want to sound like an anorak but in all my years of riding I have used WD40 and I believe it is better than anything else, I just swamp the bike with it.