15k miles Desmo?

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Anyone had their 15k mile Desmo service done? If so, what did you pay? I have asked three different SoCal dealers for estimates and got three different answers on price and what parts are replaced during the service. One dealer quoted 51 total screws get replaced at $450 in parts and 11 hours of labor. Second dealer quoted service and 21 screws replaced. Third didn't know....hadn't done one yet.......yikes.

Total price ranged from $2400 to $1600.
 
On my 1199r I did valve check last fall. They replaced a gasket and spark plugs along with a few hardware bits. As for the valve cover, I blew them out last season on the race bike. Gasket could have been old as the bike sat from the production line in 2015 and didn't get put to work until the 2019 season and only saw track days. Total I paid was in the $900 ball park. The dealer is a sponsor of mine. They only charge me the time they actually put in.
I was told typical Desmo service should be in the 1500 range.
 
jeosbor1 said:
Anyone had their 15k mile Desmo service done? If so, what did you pay? I have asked three different SoCal dealers for estimates and got three different answers on price and what parts are replaced during the service. One dealer quoted 51 total screws get replaced at $450 in parts and 11 hours of labor. Second dealer quoted service and 21 screws replaced. Third didn't know....hadn't done one yet.......yikes.

Total price ranged from $2400 to $1600.
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Was any those 3 Newport location?
 
DucatiKev said:
Closer to $1,500 for the V4, my 1299 is $2500 plus whatever bolts needs replaced
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Curious as to why the v4 would be cheaper than the 1299 since there's twice as many to check/adjust. I adjusted the valves on my 1299 myself two years ago, and have never been so glad my bike only had 8 valves!
 
Ryfly05 said:
Curious as to why the v4 would be cheaper than the 1299 since there's twice as many to check/adjust
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Its not. The book pays same hours to disassemble inspect and reassemble for both. They are just estimates tho. How is tech gonna know if the cams gotta come out or not without taking the whole bike apart and measuring clearance?

If the cams gotta come out you will receive a phone call to approve those additional hours and the cost of the shims
 
Trade in b4 warranty expires
Mick1976 said:
I have never heard of a warranty. Maybe one of the resident master techs like DucatiKev or Don14R can explain it all?
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Ok I agree hard drugs are bad mkay but soft or EZ drugs are good mkay so inhale and take a chill and instead of over analyzing everything all the time let’s focus on the positives.
I’ll start: 650ib now has a bright blue shift light which means he doesn’t let it bounce off the rev limiter for seconds and seconds before upshift



“Dude that shift light really helped you out... for the most part”

I do like that black Duc

 
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The valve check and if necessary, adjustment procedures are not difficult mechanically and shouldn’t be difficult from a skill perspective. Not sure what the fuss is. Ducati service is a disaster and their “time quotes” are not remotely realistic. If you’re going to own one of these money pits, it’s not a bad idea to bite the bullet and learn the “do it yourself route”.
 
endodoc said:
The valve check and if necessary, adjustment procedures are not difficult mechanically and shouldn’t be difficult from a skill perspective. Not sure what the fuss is. Ducati service is a disaster and their “time quotes” are not remotely realistic. If you’re going to own one of these money pits, it’s not a bad idea to bite the bullet and learn the “do it yourself route”.
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While you're not wrong, I've done adjustments and belts on a Monster, I'm gonna be taking it in more for a peace of mind thing. I'm an okay mechanic at best, and my margin of error is simply gonna be larger than that of an experienced tech (hopefully). Knowing myself, if I do valves myself and then go flogging my V4 on the track, I'll have a little worry in the back of my head asking what if I didn't do something correctly and I'm about to grenade this ............ at 180mph. I'll gladly pay a couple hundred bucks or more to keep my conscience clear.
 
I went to school so I could pass the FAA tests and get my aircraft mechanics license. 30 guys in my class (all wanting to be aircraft mechanics all thinking they had what it takes most w experience w gasoline engines). When we got to the basics of a 4 stroke reciprocating engine we had to spend a week on what they called ‘a flying W’. All it was is a simple diagram showing valve timing in relation crankshaft rotation. 4 hours a day for 5 days. 20 mf hours. And some of them still did not understand when we finally moved on. With valve to piston clearance being pretty tight in these things there isn’t a lot of room for error. One tooth in the wrong direction there is gonna be contact. 4 cams/tight clearances - it’s prolly not the best motor to learn on. No matter where their trepidation level is : )
 
First you can’t mess the “timing up unless you loosen the timing bolts on the cam which have nothing to do with the valve check. You can mess up the cam orientation but you would really have to try to do so The cams are gear driven. On the 99s if you have to re-shim, you rotate the crank until both cam flats are parallel. There’s even a tool that hold them in place at TDC if your that sketchy. you pull the cam caps and pop the cams out. They load the drive gear from the top. TDC is impossible to miss. As long as you don’t rotate the crankshaft and install the cams back with the flat spot up you can’t mess it up. Not sure how many V2 and V4 heads you have gone through Don but these things are pretty easy to work on.
 

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