Home

Go Back   .: XT660.com - The #1 XT660 Resource :. > XT660 Community > Owner's reviews - XTX / XTR / XTZ bikes > XT660Z Reviews
FAQ Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read Main site

Google

XT660Z Reviews The "Z" - Good or Bad

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  # 1  
Old 22-06-09, 14:56
uscincpac uscincpac is offline
Newbie XT-Moto
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: London
Posts: 11
uscincpac is on a distinguished road
Exclamation 09 Tenere - Key Points for new owners

Greetings all - new to the board, picked up my 09 XT660Z on Saturday and spent the week-end riding and sorting it out. This post summarises a hundred others on this board, so new owners can just read this one!

Summary:

Lovely bike, excellent on-road manners and was superb on the (admittedly mild) trails I threw at it. Despite what follows, all is good and I'm very happy with the purchase - every bike has its glitches.

Potential Issues:

It seems apparent that Yamaha have 'run out money' in the last stages of design/manufacture of the Tenere. Whatever the original budget was, it must have been cut down to aggressively price the bike in the showrooms. Only that could explain a couple of real 'howlers' - which essentially amount to electrics exposed to the elements in a way I've never seen on any bike, let alone one with 'off-road' aspirations (if it has fork protectors, surely open wiring is a no-no? )

I found & resolved three items so far:

1. Connector box and wiring near the alternator - just behind the horn and wide open to all the cr*p coming off the front wheel. Amusingly, the alternator area is armoured with a metal plate. Now, Mr Yamaha, what is more likely in life of an average Tenere - an unfortunate rock going there or a bike going through a puddle? What happens when these wires rot is well documented on this board, but solution is simple - plenty of grease and a bicycle inner tube tightly wrapped and ziptied around there should keep things dry.

2. Brake light wiring on the handlebar - individual cables+contact plates exposed. Grease+inner tube, job done.

3.Tail light bulb assembly - as above.

4. Posts on here suggest a similar state of affairs behind the front sprocket - the side-stand switch circuitry. I haven't had the time to look, but from the rest of it is sounds very plausible. Will get it seen to asap.

Another generic top tip for any new bike owner - especially UK-based ones - when you collect it take 30 mins to go around the bike with a tub of engine oil/grease and a small paintbrush, and put oil on every nut, bolt, fitting, screw, spring, exposed bits of clutch cable etc. Exercise common sense of course and keep off the brake discs/rubber hoses.

This will save me reading another anguished post about 'build quality'. All bikes rust in our climate and 10 mins of prevention is better than 5 recalls under warranty.

Also next time you do your own servicing, you will 'round off' far fewer nuts!
 

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 06:14.
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2019, vBulletin Solutions Inc.

  XT660         Archive   Main site


Footer
vBSkinworks Top