Dave Platt Short Custom Pipes

[Nat67]

This is a different system, not too common by all accounts. I did look at the outlaws but wanted something a little different. Next time...

The outlaws will only fit the ABS roadsters . The standards and classics seem to have to have that weird hedgehog box. I fail to see why they can't just have a link pipe ?

 

[Grumpy Ole Codger]

The outlaws will only fit the ABS roadsters . The standards and classics seem to have to have that weird hedgehog box. I fail to see why they can't just have a link pipe ?

Absolutely! Need the opinion of a specialist @Paul Bryant - any advice Paul?

 

[foxviewnet]

Hey Grumpy. Here are some pics I just took. Mine went on well as we discussed earlier in the week. Your LHS is definitely off radius.

 

[Grumpy Ole Codger]

Hey Grumpy. Here are some pics I just took. Mine went on well as we discussed earlier in the week. Your LHS is definitely off radius.

Yep, I drew the short straw and got the Friday afternoon specials Glad yours are okay though, at least you haven't had this nightmare experience with what was in my mind a respected 'company'...

 

[foxviewnet]

Yep, I drew the short straw and got the Friday afternoon specials Glad yours are okay though, at least you haven't had this nightmare experience with what was a respected 'company'...

I am totally disappointed in your situation and the responses you have gotten. Not the representation I would expect. I operate a service oriented business and would want my client to be happy regardless of who is right. I hope this wraps up for you without additional grief.

 

[Grumpy Ole Codger]

I am totally disappointed in your situation and the responses you have gotten. Not the representation I would expect. I operate a service oriented business and would want my client to be happy regardless of who is right. I hope this wraps up for you without additional grief.

I have to admit Dave Platt has tried but then passed the buck to his manufacturer. As a person with limited knowledge of manufacturing I could plainly see where the problem lay, and what the resolution was. But after 3 weeks of repeated mails denying this and the intimation that it was all my fault...the conversation with his minion was a little bit fraught and warmed up very quickly. My only question is 'why me???'

 

[thorin]

Maybe you should direct Dave Platt’s attention to this forum thread. There’s future business here to be gained or lost.

 

[Navigator]

I have to admit Dave Platt has tried but then passed the buck to his manufacturer. As a person with limited knowledge of manufacturing I could plainly see where the problem lay, and what the resolution was. But after 3 weeks of repeated mails denying this and the intimation that it was all my fault...the conversation with his minion was a little bit fraught and warmed up very quickly. My only question is 'why me???'

I have no dog in this fight so perhaps shouldn't be posting but a former Indian riding friend may be purchasing a Roadster and is looking into performance exhaust options prior to purchase.

This extremely odd situation caught my attention and is obviously very frustrating to you. How can someone who is selling a product, with a component obviously being defective, refer the aggrieved customer to the fabricator? To me that makes no sense and is not the normal way business is done.

 

[Ygransom]

I'm confused. You pipe in post 4 looks to be orientated the same as the pipe on the jig in past 7, than in post 15 you say you bought a new LH bracket. Did you have the wrong (non-stock) bracket whish is why it was misaligned?

 

[Paul Bryant]

Absolutely! Need the opinion of a specialist @Paul Bryant - any advice Paul?

O.K. what we are looking at here is a muffler that is set up to use the stock Rocket L/H muffler mounting bracket.
If you were to rotate the unit so that the inlet tube was horizontal so as to align with the horizontal cross over pipe, the mounting points would be rotated around to suit the stock mounting bracket.
But then the tapered end piece would be out of whack.

As you have said this L/H bracket was not with the bike when you bought it so you needed to purchase this separately.
Again as you say there is a R/H mounting bracket supplied, this makes sence as the stock R/H bracket is set up to support the two stock mufflers on the R/H side.

So the problem is that the orientation of the rear section of the muffler, the tapered piece, is off.
This where this the main body of the muffler has not been orientated correctly in the jig when the inlet tube and the mounting points have been attached.

So yes, it has been assembled wrong.