Avoid this company at all costs we…
Avoid this company at all costs we brought my partners son off this company in December 25
The bike was described as in good condition with a new mot..
from day one we have had nothing but issues Speedo not working, bike was bogging out and the rear tyre had a puncture,
We ended up taking it to a local garage to be looked at and now have a £700 bill this is part of the email from the garage where we are having it fixed
Dear Candy,
Thank you for having entrusted us to investigate and take remedial action(s) to the defects and safety concerns with your recent motorcycle purchase from another business.
You brought the bike to us with running issues and other concerns around it having kept breaking down in use.
On inspection we identified a multitude of faults so I thought it best to walk through the inspection process we followed.
Off the bat we noted that the ignition barrel was loose, which can contribute to bad grounding for the electrical system.
We have cleaned up the heavy corrosion on its fixings and tightened the barrel as it should have arrived with you.
Upon tracing down the wiring harness from the barrel towards the battery it has obviously been modified with cut and spliced wiring around the headstock area and red electrical tape closing up the harness after someone's been into the harness before. Splicing wiring in this location is a poorly executed fix due to the movement in the wiring when the bars turn and makes it easy for water ingress to occur and lead to electrical faults.
(Later on when running the bike we found there was a fault with two of the spliced wires mentioned above which we have since rectified).
Working back near to the subframe and battery we noticed that the harness was incorrectly routed and not fixed to the frame in its correct location meaning the seat base could have easily crushed and broken down the wiring over time. We also observed that the coil was loose, this will result in a intermittent / weak spark giving poor performance and creates potential for excess resistance in the wiring that could lead to burned out wiring / an electrical fire or shock.
The coils terminals were heavily crudded up with dirt and corrosion. We removed the coil and cleaned up the terminals, reinstalled with good frame grounds for earth and routed the wiring harness to its correct location and secured it to its factory fixing points.
We replaced the indicators at your request due to them not working or intermittently functioning and having electrical tape to hold some of them together.
we also observed that the number plate light had been replaced with a spray painted aerosol can lid with electrical tape and a hole to project light towards the plate (clearly not compliant with construction regs for vehicles), this fixed using drywall screws into the plastics and additionally this had obviously broken wiring bodged together in electrical tape and the lightbulb terminal was filled with dirt, debris and rusted all of these defects were easily visible on inspection.
Given that the tail section had been poorly chopped up and number plate poorly fastened and damaged we replaced the damaged number plate with a new plate with a bespoke, powdercoated metal backing plate to help prevent damage in future and installed aftermarket road compliant number plate lighting thats fit for road use.
We found that the battery is not secured with the factory straps so is at risk of bouncing, which will loosen the terminals, leading to an electrical fault / power loss when on the highways if not addressed.
Up front again we found the headlight fairing is damaged, it appears to have had a repair at some point though since failed again, the headlight was missing its spring adjustment so could not be adjusted to comply with mot requirements; we have fixed this with a custom setup due to scarcity of parts available at short notice though believe this fix meets or exceeds OEM standards.
You advised that the horn does not work, once again we found this was heavily corroded as were its terminals and lots of dirt present so we have replaced it.
Thats the harness / lighting / horn resolved.
This is just part of it as they it’s to long to copy and paste
Engine bolts was missing the bike was a hazard and the garage also told me they don’t no how it had passed a mot. The seller has now blocked me not responded to any calls messages or emails etc we will now go down the legal route
Don’t waste your time buying from this guy he bodges bikes and sells them on, he is based in East grinstead and goes by the name of colacharlie on eBay