9000 miles is hardly a lot. Bottom end failure at that sort of mileage smacks of poor assembly or faulty parts to me.

If it's any consolation, Ducati UK were more than decent to me when they agreed to replace a slightly bent valve (parts and labour) on my 750SS when it was six months out of warranty!

Having a good dealer who's prepared to fight your corner helps a lot here, I think.

I think the dealer is doing all they can to help. what i mean about the mileage is there are a lot of people out there that only do 1500 miles or so a year.

749 sime you have 2u2

Gosh I think Ill keep my 996...:(:(