Pistons and Rings after 27,500 miles

Maybe a slow slow look, with bright ass lights, at all the connectors, and wire harnesses"¦Maybe you will find a connector with a hairline split, or a connector with some type of condensation, or rust on the internal connectors"¦At the end of the day this will prob end up being something simple, it usually is, and all of the guru's missed it, and you find it thru a detailed inspection. (At least they found the banged up piston)

SOMETHING is telling the CPU some ........ at the wrong time and then its overcompensating from it. Like an intermittent short ?

NOLA

Anti... you rock. Thanks for giving us all some insight on a high mileage 1199. Most people don't have the dedication to keep track of all the data and issues and report them like you have. I appreciate all that you offer.
I have to admit this is troubling for me. I saved all my life to buy my Duc and I was expecting a marvel of a bike with a long lasting engine. A marvel it is...but I am starting to wonder if it can take the abuse we dish at them. I kinda baby mine considering, but I am dreading the the future ownership of this bike. I guess for $20k+ purchase price I expect so much more. Like extra expensive oil changes, rubber,and high priced maintenance in general, but this seems out of line for the mileage you have. I would expect at least 50k miles before .... like this happens. Am I out of line here? WTF?

I plan on doing the oil changes myself. So not a big deal there. And there's no point in owning a sportbike without sticky tires....

This engine is pushed so far to the limit. Like an F1 race engine, it's going to have some odd behavior.

But it's still a huge step up from previous Ducati engines. (belts, smaller gearboxes, flakey rocker arms, frequent valve adjustments, dry clutch nonsense, leaky valve seats, oil galley plug )

Plenty of Japanese sportbikes also blowing up, before 15,ooo miles, out there. Honda guys won't admit it though. Name band ego's? Just the nature of high performance engines. Don't like it, go slow.

Looked at a lot of .... tonight, NOLA. All the connectors except a couple looked good and even those weren't too bad. Pulled the battery and put in a new one and found that a washer was missing on the tray holding the battery tray, which would allow the battery to bounce around (along with the fuses). I've never taken the tray off, but it must have been pulled at some point. Still wonky, though, but could perhaps have led to a connector getting pinched or sending intermittent data to the ECU?

13 - Keep in mind that by the time you and most people get to my kind of mileage Ducati will have already amassed a database of solutions to what are/were puzzling problems. Ducati WILL figure out what's going on with my bike. I'm just the experimental rat at this point.

Regarding the engine--the damage was most likely caused by the airbox leak that resulted from an inattentively installed airbox seal and not caused by a manufacturing defect. At 15k my valves were in spec and hell, other than the exhaust losing insulation and loosening up and a fork seal leak (I paid for that, was kind of hard to refute that all my offroading didn't have an efect), the bike is magnificent. No issues with wheel or steering bearings, no bent rims, no issues with suspension linkages or cracked 'frame'. And for as hard as I am on my brakes, my rotors are still in spec.

For everything I've put my bike through, I'd say that you all should be VERY confident that the Panigale will make an excellent long-term bike. Even the fookin paint looks crazy good!

So my advice for any new or current Panigale owner:
1) get new footpegs
2) get an Oberon or similar clutch slave
3) ride without worry--the 1199 is by no means fragile
4) get an extended warranty JUST in case.