Return of the Wolf

My understanding is in a court of law they have to prove anything you did was a contributing factor in a failure.
If that didn't stand they could refuse your warranty becuase you fitted fit ebc pads and not brembo or arrow cans and not Aprilia.

Trouble is you don't want to go to court to enforce common sense on them.
In reality my own experience has been that the warranty is as good as the dealer handling it. 99% of the time aprilia will never see the part that the claim is against before they authorise it to be replaced. So they rely on the common sense/competence of the dealer and that can be lacking especially if they don't want the job.

My advice is to use the dealer you purchased from if you possibly can cos they have an interest in keeping you sweet or failing that go to one of the dealers you get good recommendation for.
If your dealer insists it's warranty 9 times out of ten they will win the day.

where recalls are concerned they are legally bound to hounour the recall regardless of age or condition or owner of the vehicle. A recall is a binding declarartion to Vosa that the vehicle has an issue affecting safety.

Your making progress and that's what counts.

Re the crack they should read the technical bulletin which concludes the crack starts from a weakness caused by the toe guard mounting riv nut being present in a stress area of the swinger.

The crack always starts at that riv nut and runs under the swinger and usually only gets your attention when it comes round the bottom and up the visible side. where has yours cracked - exactly there.
They are talking from somewhere dark and smelly but at least they are doing it which is what counts. beats me why they tell porkies cos people just find out and then they lose credability big time. :jack

Look familiar - got a few pics of various different bikes all the same. Looks nothing like yours though does it :dunno :confused

Welcome back Wolf. Best of luck with your swinger.

Great news mate...enjoy!

Hi wolf i just found this post by you so forget my previous .hope you get sorted man ..

glad its sorted dude
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DURR AM A BIT BEHIND ON DATES ME FINKS ,,,, ANYWAY WHAT EVER all's well that ends well you got it licked and aprilia have come up with the goods . well done mate ..

I keep gettin a letter tellin me to take the bike ( 04 model year ) to a dealer ( no names yet ) for the back brake sortin ................... I rang and said no worries brake works fine ............

Been on to dealer about my swingarm not gettin replaced yet ..... they aint interested :dunno

Pleased to hear you've had some success tho mate :thumbup