--On Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:59 AM -0500 wghalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
My opinion, as an engineer who has been involved in a few product
liability cases is that they have reduced their maintenance costs but
set themsleves up for legal expenses. As a second owner, I don't have
the owners manual. Since there are no warning stickers on the bike...
They would have to convince a jury, none of whom have probably EVER
changed the brake fluid in their ABS equipped cars, that it was normal
maintanence procedure to change fluid annually. And that there was no
way to prevent the corrosion problem, or provide a warning of ABS pump
failure. GFL
The down side to all of this is that Yamaha will be discouraged from doing
ABS again.
That leads to a thought, though. Do Honda or BMW motorcycle ABS systems
have the same failure rate? I would expect that maintenance is about the
same, so is the failure of the Yamaha ABS system due to some inherent flaw
or sensitivity in the system that BMW and Honda doen't have?
Just thinking.
Take care,
Mike
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