October 12th, 2015, 09:03 AM
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Name: Spooph
Location: Golden, CO
Join Date: Jul 2010
Motorcycle(s): '08 Ninja 250R
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MOTM - Oct '15
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Originally Posted by Kurgan
An update on this situation.....
The seat cowl was ordered directly from Kawasaki, who said they had the part in stock one day, and out of stock the next day.
Now the only thing they offer is a "parts kit" where you have to order each individual part, and each part has a drastically inflated price, totaling more than double the original assembled cost of the seat cowl. Just the seat pad and all the hardware to make the cowl fit and lock down (grommets, screws, etc.) was over $150, and the cowl itself was over $100. And no, I didn't pay extra for those parts, the dealer is making Kawasaki fix the order at Kawasaki's expense.
$250 for a complete rear cowl parts kit when the MSRP for the assembled cowl is half that??? WTF are they smoking over at Kawasaki these days???
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not sure if I understand you correctly, however I think one reason for this is increase margins on replacement parts. As is the usual. If you were to buy all of the parts to build an engine it would be much more expensive than buying a new crate engine.
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