SYM - Engine of life! Having customers that accept the regular maintenance philosophy and change the oil every 3000 km seems sensible to me.gn2 wrote:Sym sensible? That'll be some u-turn...
Prevention rather than cure!
SYM - Engine of life! Having customers that accept the regular maintenance philosophy and change the oil every 3000 km seems sensible to me.gn2 wrote:Sym sensible? That'll be some u-turn...
You should see there home market (Taiwan) models... Fuel injected, good instruments, look great, modern engines. Yet for the export market SYM seem to be lagging a little behind. They are still using carbs (on non maxi's) for example whilst almost everyone else has moved onto injection. The oil though doesn't need changing every 1000km... It's 3000km but should be checked every 1000km. Parts can be a bit annoying, I have to get air filters from the dealer, unless anyone knows a site that sells SYM GTS air filters...Blubayou wrote:I've had a couple of Joyrides & now have a SYM Jet, they all use a crude strainer rather than a filter & require 1000km oil changes. Great if you stick to regular changes but hardly mainstream. I think it's all due to even the rather nice Joyride watercooled 4V engine being evolved from the ancient Honda GY6 motor.
They seen to spend a lot of R&D developing a huge range of different bikes with different body panels, LED lights & lovely dashboards all running 1960's underpinnings.
Kind of suits old boys like me, but hardly good business in the western world.
And as for the dealer network & spares availability............