Quote Originally Posted by ZMC888 View Post
I'm now a former prospective JH600-A purchaser. In fact I find it amazing. Jialing think that they should become the 'Honda of China'! They are just losing future customers and damaging their long term reputation.
Ditto!
Another issue is that many of the Chinese motorcycle manufacturers care little of any the after sales service and support. Many do not offer any inservice technical training for any of the sales/distributors mechanics. CFMoto do have a such a course and one of the mechanics I visit has the CFMOto Jetmax Authorised course attendance plaque displayed on his wall, but even he takes a few liberties and short cuts at times which has made me shake my head in bewilderment on more than one instance.

Recently I complained about some hardly audible popping (backfiring) on low revs when decelerating that I asked him to connect his ECU management module to so as he could perhaps alter the fuel/air ratio mix. He does a few things, checks and cleans the air filter box, checks the air filter element (foam - which he maintains should not have a light oil impregnated into it as I'd done with the first couple of filters; to which I still beg to differ). After not being able to find the cause of the popping so he decides to cut the end of the engine breather hose which admittedly was full of oil (hose is like 10cm long) which proceeds to dump a small amount of oil on the workshop floor. No issue there since the floor is black with dirt and grime. But now I have a bike that never dropped 1ml of oil anywhere, now dropping 5-10mls after every ride. I can't park the bike just anywhere like I used to (eg. hotel lobbies etc). I regret even bringing it up with him to look since the popping sound one can't here well at all since the muffler is so baffled up. Now to replace that hose I have to remove the seat, the underseat storage compartment etc. a bloody big job. Yet on the other hand this same mechanic did a great job making up a flange and connection for the aftermarket muffler I wanted to attach to the Jetmax to give it a richer/louder exhaust sound. It was after fitting this and riding it for a week or more that I noticed this popping backfiring. I've since gone back to the stock muffler.


Going back to the foam air filter, it is widely known in places like OZ that foam air filters should and are always provided a small light oil to impregnate deep into the fibers as it is this that actually filters out the fine grit particles and the like from the air. Take the XT1200Z Super Tenere, the model for the Australian market has been fitted with a reuseable foam filter element in place of the standard air filter by Yamaha, for this very reason. The recommendation is to use a light grade oil on the foam air filter element.

Sorry a bit of topic, but just serves to show that TIC and the locals won't believe there is an alternative and sometimes more ideal way (for a good reason), unless it comes from another locals mouth/brain. What gives with that?

How does that saying go again...'you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy!'