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Originally posted by rockhopper I think the tensioners were Hondas downfall rather than the chains! It went on my CX500 and cost a packet to fix. |
Oh dear sad fact time.
Of my 3 CX500's 1 had stood for 2 years and snapped its cam chain within a few hundred miles of buying it, so i agree with Paul, very expensive.
The first one just ate cam chains, the second a later model was better, needing them every 30,000 miles (almost to the mile) religiously, and the third one the latest model never needed a cam chain in 70,000 miles.
Honda released various supposed cam chain tensioner updates.
Why the third bike was OK i'll never know.
Don't believe that all Jap bikes are faultless. CX's alternators also failed regularly and it was an engine out job coz it was at the back of the engine. And right hand indicator switches packed up, and.......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz SORRY