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Not catastrophic, she still runs well, but odd oddities and the rear shock is dripping with oil. Looks like it blew out a seal and dumped its oil on the rear header and tire. Thankful I know the OE shock is a decent piece and can be had for about $150. I'll be swinging for the next track day EZ PZ.
No. Now it's $550. Used? For OE? WTH? I know theres not a lot of these out there but... what happened?
Well, being a guy, I know I can literally justify any purchase, and soon I'm on the NCCR website writing the recipe for a bespoke Wilburs rear shock. Oh Hell yes I did! Knowing it would take some time for Zee Germans to send it to Sweden, where it's manipulated to spec, to be sent to the good ol' USA to be installed and tuned by a Redneck Hippie like me, I got one ordered quick.
That was 2 months ago and the next track day weekend is looming. On my birthday.
I can't possibly say enough good things about the folks at NCCR. A family business who have drank more of the Buell-aid than I ever could. Knowledgable and friendly, ready to do whatever it takes for their clients, not because of the paycheck, but because they care. Thats seriously rare these days.
So the shock gets to CA about 2 miles away from me and gets stalled out. UPS keeps moving the delivery date forward a day, everyday. After a week of this BS, i get an late Thursday email from UPS. "Your package is being held in a secure facility, pending instructions". Ok, WHAT instructions? I assume they can't find a street address but no answers come from the website, the FAQ's the Virtual useless BS. I won't bore the details... but 5 DAYS later I get to talk to a human. "It's missing its invoice for import".
I send NCCR a e-mail and my phone immediately rings. It's Pär. Taking care of **** ASAP. NCCR gets the invoice FROM UPS and sends back TO UPS, and now UPS says its on the way. Again.
One day, two days, on the third day I get another email from UPS. "Pay $101.31 via check or MO". Why you ask? I didn't know either. Shipping paid, Taxes paid, oh! Its "impound fee's" at $20/DAY because they couldn't find the invoice they had in their own system or see any of the THREE copies attached to the package.
Another 2 days of phone calls and I get the secretary of the guy that can remove the silly (and criminal) charges. I send the e-mail to him while on the phone and hang up. I immediately get the auto-reply "I'm out of the office for a week... blah blah" ****ing furious I blanket email every single UPS email address I can find and a day later get ONE reply "COD has been removed"
Great! Sigh. Except my UPS driver didn't get the note. His computer still says due. More phone calls. The lady on day 2 says "when he driver gets there, have him call me for a code". Which means sitting at home all day and then stopping him from doing his job to wait on hold for you like I did??
How about you GIVE ME "the code" to put on the door? "No sir, I can't do that" Like I'm going to perform a hostile UPS takeover with that valuable info. Sheesh.
Done. Finally get this jewelry for my girl.
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2 bolts right? The ass is already strung from the rafters I can't WAIT to get it on and test/tune tomorrow!