Factory Customization is COMING!

[Ridgerunnur]

I don't know.

And regarding warranty, it already is the case that all H-D and SE parts/accessories purchased and installed prior to delivery by the dealer are covered by the 2-year, unlimited mileage warranty.

How would this affect dealership service departments, which are tasked with all customer ordered, pre-delivery p&a procurement and installation?

[Scabbydoo]

Wonder if you'll be able to build one that doesn't take a sh!t on you, like Ed's and a few others.

[PeaceKeeper]

Oh Crap........just crap...

[Bone Stockman]

Originally Posted by MegaGlide

Personally, I don't think it's gonna be as big as San Francisco before we know it, nor will it be just as sophisticated.
I do hope I'm wrong, but there hasn't been a bloody coup on Juneau Ave that I've heard of, and if this does turn out good, where have they been keeping the people responsible and why have they started listening to them now?

What this does is prevent the Mothership from having to make any revolutionary changes to the bikes for the near future. Assuming they don't bone this up, it'll open them up to people who wouldn't have looked at them otherwise.

[y2kflhr]

are they releasing a sticker or a poster to announce this?

[mongoose]

Originally Posted by Parks

Option packages save the manufacturer money, keeps the price of the car relatively low and minimizes mistakes and poor workmanship. Unless they do this like AMG does with Mercedes cars, on guy builds an engine from start to finish...it won't be pretty. Not sure if you've shopped for an AMG lately, but it is a little pricey. I predict miserable failure on this.

I gotta agree. You think CVO's are pricey?

[Uesque]

So now they can invalidate your warranty before it even is out of the factory?

[orbit]

Originally Posted by mongoose

I gotta agree. You think CVO's are pricey?

Yeah, but on the other hand you may be able to order a stripped down EG, with the CVO driveline, less all the CVO doo dads.

It could be like the COPO Chevys from the late '60s-factory hot rods in plain brown wrappers.

Keep the 110 emblems off it, who'd know the difference???

[mongoose]

Good point, Ken. I tend not to trust Officers of the Mothership regarding pricing, though.

[Parks]

Henry Ford said it best while using production lines for cars....you can have any color so long as it is black. Another American icon, Whinchester rifles was an assembly line item. How many custom ones of those do you suppose will come from the factory.

COPO Chevy's if I am not mistaken were mostly full option package cars with a bunch of deletes. Those would not add greatly to the assembly line. What you want are workers that don't have to make lots of decisions when it comes to assembly...otherwise you get monstrous costs, slowed production, and crappy product. I can see a CVO mechanical bike without all the doo-dad's as being appealing to many though.

Fast, Cheap, or Good. Pick 2 only please.

[BigTOE]

Originally Posted by '05Train

What this does is prevent the Mothership from having to make any revolutionary changes to the bikes for the near future. Assuming they don't bone this up, it'll open them up to people who wouldn't have looked at them otherwise.

Anybody want to take a bet that it's cosmetics only and limited to add on's and not swap outs? Hope I'm wrong.

[DaSkip]

It sounds cool, but they wouldn't give me enough on a trade-in to make it worth my time. Heck, I just got mine running really nice. That being said, I would love to build me a custom one-off.

[Homesick]

I'm just looking forward to watching them squabble on TV each week, now that they're doing customs.

joe

[JDsCycleWorks]

[DaSkip]

Originally Posted by Homesick

I'm just looking forward to watching them squabble on TV each week, now that they're doing customs.

joe

I won't watch it, but that was funny.