I had my 2018 Spyder F3L towed into dealer for warranty work on intermittent "stuck in gear" since last August...BRP has escalated my case internally.
BUT! The dealer's tow truck driver, who worked for the dealer for 5 years now and bragged to me about knowing how to properly tow a Spyder, drove my bike right smack INTO the ramp instead of ONTO the ramp. He forgot that he needed to put down the wood planks to lift the Spyder for clearance and to avoid this small collision...he said that Rykers are higher than Spyders...well, my bike is a Spyder F3L!!!!! I called dealer immediately after this happened and told them to check my bump skid for damage, which I do believe there IS a big indentation in my bump skid under the grille that will match the pattern on the ramp!
What else should I be worried about that could happen with this kind of blunt and abrupt stop force that my bike encountered? I SAW it! The front of the bike stopped abruptly and loudly as it hit the ramp - and the rear end of the bike rose up with this force! I was aghast! What to have checked? What to do?
BUT! The dealer's tow truck driver, who worked for the dealer for 5 years now and bragged to me about knowing how to properly tow a Spyder, drove my bike right smack INTO the ramp instead of ONTO the ramp. He forgot that he needed to put down the wood planks to lift the Spyder for clearance and to avoid this small collision...he said that Rykers are higher than Spyders...well, my bike is a Spyder F3L!!!!! I called dealer immediately after this happened and told them to check my bump skid for damage, which I do believe there IS a big indentation in my bump skid under the grille that will match the pattern on the ramp!
What else should I be worried about that could happen with this kind of blunt and abrupt stop force that my bike encountered? I SAW it! The front of the bike stopped abruptly and loudly as it hit the ramp - and the rear end of the bike rose up with this force! I was aghast! What to have checked? What to do?
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) should probably check everything out carefully on top of the frunk, inside the frunk and underneath in, on, & around the frame, cross members, and the suspension!! At least get someone apart from the dealer to get under there with a straight edge & a square to carefully check that all the important structural bits, including the main spar and anything sticking out off the main spar are all straight & correctly angled to the spar; and check to make sure that the wheel alignment is still good too, cos even tho it sounds like he didn't hit the wheels on anything, if he hit hard enough to lift the back wheel that's certainly potentially hard enough to bend anything the 'A' arms or stabilizer bar hang off, so the alignment being out could be an indicator that something under there's now wrong, and unless you check, it won't necessarily reveal itself until you start rapidly scrubbing out tires! :banghead: 
) but they really weren't designed to solidly hit anything with their main structural components, or anything mounted on those main structural components! And the tupperware is basically your 'crush cans' - hit an obstacle hard enough (especially with anything but the wheels) to stop the Spyder & lift the rest wheel like that and the tupperware will likely crack &/or collapse/deform somewhat to lessen the potential damage to the important bits it hangs off.... And you SAW what this 'tow truck driver' did! :yikes:
