Hi Everyone.
Been looking at a 2005 sv650s with 16k on it.Is there anything in particular i should look out for.Is there a major service on these bikes at around 15k or are they all the same.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
good bikes, had the older curvy one for about a year. As far as I can remember, nothing major till 22-24,000 miles when it’s the big valve clearance service, prolly cost around £300ish. Apart from that, will just be the usual filters, oil, p’raps plugs etc.
gd biikes… but expect a small price up this month as Ride mag has just heralded them in a feature… so any sellers will prob be noticing higher exposure to buyers so might exhibit slightly hard-ball tendancies and not dropping prices as much.
Just a thought…
iank beat me to that one. Go buy a copy of Ride, June 2010 issue*.
Good multi page spread. One of their lead articles this month and up to their usual good standard.
(* How come I get the June issue through the post on April 16th? Are they on a different callender to the rest of the world?)
valve clearances are every 16k fella its quite involving so around 200 but more to have the shims done if needed
goign on forum info for the 1000’s valves and shims are normaly ok for quite high milages, its the exhaust valves that need adjusting.
in saying that i had an SV650S bought with 8k on the clock, a BMW killed it with just over 22,000 on the clock, never had the shims or valves looked at…and it ran just fine:)
ah yea, think you’re right, i didn’t get mine done till 22k tho i think, they didn’t need to doing at 16-18k.
Maybe was the shims not the BMW that killed it.
i second that,
you 2 are a right comedy act…
when a BMW pulls out on you and t bones you and the rad break’s moves back and cracks the cylinder head and rocker and damages every panel plus otherparts…its a write off…
shims…ppft…**** off;)
valve clearances are one of those things you cant tell if it needs doing as valves wear tight. Had mine checked again at 34k and they were spot on but its a must just for piece of mind.
oh yea? How much did it cost you to get them checked?
i get all work done by a chief mechanic at infinity as hes know my family for decades and i had it done very cheap
At the risk of being called “pathetic” again because I suggested that you can fix things that break, this should be a doable job.
But only if you have a bit of nouse and a half decent tool kit. The manual is also probably essential.
I do find it hard sometimes to work out how dealers come to their charges. O.k. they have large overheads, but I’m still left with the suspicion that they charge extra for jobs customers are scared of. Clearances fall into that group of works.
Oh, if it helps, a friend has had the clearances on his SV done twice by an independent garage and each time they have been honest and said they checked them and everything was o.k. and just charged him for half an hours work.
I think they charge such high prices because people will pay them! people believe all the hype that a bike needs x,y,z doing at so and so mileage.
Half an hour! I’d like to see it done in that time, that’s a good deal IMO…might not bother doing myself if I can get that kind of deal
Half an hour is pretty quick, I could probably do the front cylinder in 25 minutes with all the tools I needed but then again, I’m not a mechanic.
I want to go back to an SV650, I’ve had 4 in total before. The one thing I tend to shy away from is high mileages. Their engines, in my opinion, aren’t that solid. Having said that, they are owned by a lot of new bikers who forget to check oil levels and what not so not entirely the SV’s fault.