SAWEET!! Looks like we're not getting hoodwinked after all [emoji23] Well, not by Redline. It's a very odd feeling trying to decide what to do with the Akra cans. Such beautiful, trash. Why did they change the SL setup so drastically that Absolutely Nothing carries over?
Well I have my feelings, rooted in my 199 questions coming into my Ducati ownership. BUT! Seeing as the Akrapovic dropped a "service plug" and almost burned a lot more than an SAS can/lines/mount/fairing as mine and numerous others did...
Since they couldn't muster a simple "Damn we're sorry" over my melted Parts list because apparently safety wire is too high end for my little FE.... Instead contact me to say "We'll look into it". REALLY? Wow thanks, I was worried about other owners, bless them with this knowledge before more bikes are damaged or someone gets hurt? My crazy thinking at least.
No one was notified, other owners who suffered the same failure and even head techs from Ducati shops who did the work; they contacted me. I sought out everyone I could find and let them know; a few techs took it on themselves to talk to owners. But no way that got to everyone.
Since Akrapovic themselves troll my Instagram page, I'm going to publicly call them out again over breakfast.
I was so excited about the FE, huge part being these pipes. I still have the Parts book diagrams of the SL and FE exhaust systems; when they were identical. So why did they render every last bit absolutely useless? Why am I basically throwing away an item worth a fortune?
Why wasn't our safety worth securing the plug in the exhaust? Best of all is since it was over a month earlier this happened to other people...
Why wasn't I worth notifying? It makes me SICK. Oh yeah, and one of the two lines it's melting off is vapor/overflow from the fuel tank. No safety concern there though.
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