Ducati Sporting Club UK > Model Specific - Discussion, Technical Problems and Help > 999 / 749 > Are Ducati taking us for numpties?

[Ray]

Ducati have helped out some on here with bikes well out of warranty, if you have a good working relationship with a dealer they might well help you as well. Personally I would have tried that route first before attempting repair, give Ducati a chance to see for themselves what has happened.

The rads on these bikes are curved and ally, most car stuff is a lot cheaper, flat, and on older stuff easier to repair.

If ya dont' get anywhere and need to a new rad it might be worth joining up to get ya 10% off



Ray.

[skidlids]

Jim at Bike Enders is quite often putting Rads from the bikes he breaks on Ebay, always worth gicing him a shout especially as your talking around £125 from him
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[audicdl]

Originally Posted by skidlids

Jim at Bike Enders is quite often putting Rads from the bikes he breaks on Ebay, always worth gicing him a shout especially as your talking around £125 from him
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That seems to be a favoured route at the moment. Cheers. As I say, It has been repaired, but it remains to be seen if it's been done well enough to last. I'm gonna take it out for a couple of hours in the morning and see what develops. Fingers crossed.

[Wylie1]

Ally radiators can be repaired too. Try:-

http://www.gmxradiators.co.uk/cgi-bi...sp&s=49&id=gmx

I've no idea if it'll work out cheaper, but at least you'll know you're not buying another poorly constructed rad from a breakers

[Courageous]

Just saw this and it had ended already....... sorry - touch of the Jim Bowens there!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ADME:B:SS:UK:1

[audicdl]

Originally Posted by Courageous

Just saw this and it had ended already....... sorry - touch of the Jim Bowens there!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...ADME:B:SS:UK:1

Wow, you've really depressed me with that one, guess where I live ? Yes that's right about five minutes from where that was sold, I could have even saved the postage costs!
Any way I took it out for about 40 miles yesterday and the repair has held fine so far

[bike mad]

to late now but a bit of advice if any one has a radiator with a hole in it.
I had some special liquid metal but if you check the the packs are labelled to what temperature they'll take, my one was 300c which is more than enough, I have repaired many a radiator, but the alloy ones are not supposed to be repaired but I have done this many times and never had one come back,
but do make the repair goes right round the core,