ulflyer
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Mechanic's comment on number of Throttle Body failures
Stopped by a dealer today to find out the cost of mounting/bal rear tire and adj belt ($90...one hr labor) and whole gang was sitting around shooting the breeze.
While chatting with a mechanic I said something about the seemingly large number of throttle bodies being replaced and he went into a lot of detail beyond my ken about what the problem was.
In the course of this he said he replaces the TB in about 1 out every 3 Can Ams.
I mentioned reading about some folks that have had more than one replacement and to this he said the fiche is outdated and BRP still has/had some old parts that have been superceded, so that sometimes a dealer will order one and get the old part.
Said it happened to him twice and he had to later replace both with the newer TB. These may not have been his words verbatim, but is the essence of what he told me.
Same mechanic also said something about the steering head issue and that he had replaced 40 of these. I'm not up to speed on steering heads so don't really know exactly what he called the part.
He was talking freely and I appreciated the info so I won't mentiion the dealer just so theres no repercussions to him.
Theres several dealers in my general vicinity.
Stopped by a dealer today to find out the cost of mounting/bal rear tire and adj belt ($90...one hr labor) and whole gang was sitting around shooting the breeze.
While chatting with a mechanic I said something about the seemingly large number of throttle bodies being replaced and he went into a lot of detail beyond my ken about what the problem was.
In the course of this he said he replaces the TB in about 1 out every 3 Can Ams.
I mentioned reading about some folks that have had more than one replacement and to this he said the fiche is outdated and BRP still has/had some old parts that have been superceded, so that sometimes a dealer will order one and get the old part.
Said it happened to him twice and he had to later replace both with the newer TB. These may not have been his words verbatim, but is the essence of what he told me.
Same mechanic also said something about the steering head issue and that he had replaced 40 of these. I'm not up to speed on steering heads so don't really know exactly what he called the part.
He was talking freely and I appreciated the info so I won't mentiion the dealer just so theres no repercussions to him.
Theres several dealers in my general vicinity.
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