read the whole thread.
Shitty to read that Yamaha dicks people around with the YES coverage.
I imported my 2011 from Montana, so I had the bare bones 1 yr warranty.
5 yrs, and 75 (hard) k km later, the bike has been near faultless.
That said, I've been a cheapskate and pumped mostly crap 87 or 89 octane that has ethanol in it.
The bike is currently using half a liter of oil every 2500 km (Oil light comes on when cold right around 2500 km after oil change). Add half a liter, and i'm good for another 2500km.
I've been told the bike puffs blue under say a wheelie ::013:: but does not burn it under heavy acceleration.
So having said the above, and the issues that the others had (Tim, Original poster, EricV) what could it be?
The bike pulls like a freight train (Full arrow exhaust, AC flash, CO is at errmmm...I forgot, but want to say 6) no PC or anything like that, OEM filters, and I'm anal about valves and maintenance (See my blog
shamless plug here :
https://thetenerist.wordpress.com/category/tenere/
And no I don't ride the bike at 1000 rpm...
I did try the shock treatment with the ring free, but noticed little difference. I have been running 92 octane (free of ethanol) for the last two k.
I was going to keep an eye on the oil consumption, if it got really shitty I was going to pull the head and do the following:
2014 head. Figured its marginally better, and I don't have to fix anything on the original head
new valves seals, springs, guides...the lot
new pistons and ring
new cam chain
2014 CCT (Maybe) as I have a manual CCT in it now
all new gaskets...OBVS!
Thoughts? Keep in mind that I'm a shade tree mechanic, so the above might very well be well out to lunch