Opinions needed on 2013 leftover and YES

[78YZ]

I purchased a 2013 leftover in February 2015. I've already had the ECU flashed and I plan to do the 2014 clutch basket and either a manual or 2014+ cct. Here is where I need opinions.

I own multiple bikes and will probably put less than 10k miles per year on the S10. I have 8,500 miles now. Given the mods listed above, and the mileage stated, does a 4-year YES warranty make sense for me? If I keep the bike five years, it will probably have less than 50k mileson it.

Will a manual cam chain tensioner void the YES warranty?
Will a flashed ECU void a YES warranty?
Will adding the newer clutch basket void the warranty?

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[Dogdaze]

I spoke to Yamaha UK and this is what they told me; the CCT for the 14MY is a superceded part number, which means that it can be used in the pre-14MY, the 14 clutch basket is not, so if they were to replace a pre-14 bike with a clutch basket it would get the old part, as in their eyes the new clutch basket is only intended for the 14MY bike, so any failure would deem it warranty exempt. I cannot in all honesty say one way or another about the ECU reflash, maybe some else can chime in?

 

[Don in Lodi]

I think only failures that can be at all attributed to the non-conforming replacement parts can cause a void. If the chain jumps time with the mechanical adjuster, void. If you twist a drive line or shear splines with a flash, void. They would need to be able to scan it. Not sure about the basket. I like what it did for my '12, your '13 may not show much change at such a low mileage, and I can't see what could go catastrophic with the newer basket to cause a void. I guess if a crank bearing went south they could blame the heavier basket, but the bearings would need to be proven to be different '13-'14.
All very nice things to do to the pre '14 bikes.

 

[78YZ]

Thanks for the feedback. I am still on the fence. If I were putting more miles per year, the YES warranty would make sense.

 

[528Hz]

Everything is up to a dealer actually. Clutch basket from 14 has not been tested on a 13 model officially. Some tenere owners have swapped it out. It works, but it's not "officially approved" so to speak, so a 13 basket still has a 12/13 pat number. Tensioner has a superseded part, so you are good there. ECU flash is not detectable unless your bike incurs electrical problem pointing at ECU and it gets looked at, which is highly unlikely but not impossible. If you load a crappy map and your pistons end up in ionosphere, they may examine your ECU at some point. But if you have a catastrophic engine failure from mechanical parts disintegrating internally under normal load like mine did twice, ECU has nothing to do with it, so it will not even be in the picture. I think YES is a very valuable item as I found out, especially these days where quality of materials and ultimately machinery is far from pristine. Should you ever have an issue, it will save you many nerve cells. Search the forum there was a good price on here for a 4 year term, under $450 I believe it was.

 

[BarkSlayer]

Don is correct. Unless a failure is directly attributable to a particular modification, it does not affect the warranty.