WaltH
Senior Member
It has been reported here that some at BRP are trying to shift blame for the fires to the owners themselves, claiming the fires may have been started by faulty owner modifications. Unless BRP has evidence that faulty modifications caused at least one of the seven fires we know about, they should abandon this foolish and self-defeating strategy. False insinuations will only tick off the owners and turn them against the company. The positive leverage BRP is getting from the Ambassador Program could easily flip over to become negative leverage. We do not want the owners to begin telling interested members of the public that “there have been a lot of fires in these things”.
With the exception of Dzus fasteners and a couple of Harley power points, all of my modifications have come from the following vendors: No Magic Neon - Kewmetal - Evoluzione - Corbin – Kuryakyn - BRP. I would like BRP to tell us which of these vendors is selling faulty products. Obviously, they are not going to do that. They will insinuate that the products were installed incorrectly. My modifications were installed by a certified Harley technician with 18 years of experience, who is much more capable than any Spyder technician I have met so far. All you have to do is read SpyderLovers.com to know there is an enormous amount of technical expertise amongst the owners who do their own work. Remember, at least one of the fires occurred on a Spyder with no modifications. Good luck with that one - BRP.
Of the seven fires we know about, five of them were in the lowest and hottest tier of states – Florida, Alabama, Texas, Arizona, and Southern California. One of the fires was in North Carolina (also a hot climate) and one was in Illinois. All of the fires were in the summer months, between May 4th and the present. There seems to be a distinct bias towards hot climates.
It is interesting to note that the above mentioned vendors ship to all of the states and probably Canada. Why were there no fires in the northern states other than Illinois? Wasn’t Illinois one of the ones with no modifications? Why were there no fires in Canada? Are all of the incompetent installers only in the hot climates? Perhaps the heat befuddles their brains. Spyder owners are the same everywhere. The skewed nature of the fire locations argues against modifications being a factor. Modifications and the way in which they are installed should be more or less uniform over the entire geographic area of Spyderdom.
If a hot climate makes it more likely there will be a fire, then gas fumes, gas lines, gas line filters, and the carbon canister become more likely villains than the owners themselves. BRP needs to look inward for the answer. It needs to give up its strategy of “blame the customer”.
With the exception of Dzus fasteners and a couple of Harley power points, all of my modifications have come from the following vendors: No Magic Neon - Kewmetal - Evoluzione - Corbin – Kuryakyn - BRP. I would like BRP to tell us which of these vendors is selling faulty products. Obviously, they are not going to do that. They will insinuate that the products were installed incorrectly. My modifications were installed by a certified Harley technician with 18 years of experience, who is much more capable than any Spyder technician I have met so far. All you have to do is read SpyderLovers.com to know there is an enormous amount of technical expertise amongst the owners who do their own work. Remember, at least one of the fires occurred on a Spyder with no modifications. Good luck with that one - BRP.
Of the seven fires we know about, five of them were in the lowest and hottest tier of states – Florida, Alabama, Texas, Arizona, and Southern California. One of the fires was in North Carolina (also a hot climate) and one was in Illinois. All of the fires were in the summer months, between May 4th and the present. There seems to be a distinct bias towards hot climates.
It is interesting to note that the above mentioned vendors ship to all of the states and probably Canada. Why were there no fires in the northern states other than Illinois? Wasn’t Illinois one of the ones with no modifications? Why were there no fires in Canada? Are all of the incompetent installers only in the hot climates? Perhaps the heat befuddles their brains. Spyder owners are the same everywhere. The skewed nature of the fire locations argues against modifications being a factor. Modifications and the way in which they are installed should be more or less uniform over the entire geographic area of Spyderdom.
If a hot climate makes it more likely there will be a fire, then gas fumes, gas lines, gas line filters, and the carbon canister become more likely villains than the owners themselves. BRP needs to look inward for the answer. It needs to give up its strategy of “blame the customer”.
hyea: here is MN is that we've had only a few days over 90, and maybe 2 over 95 this summer.
