 Bizarre letter from Triumph
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After a really warm week, a wet weekend and another warm day, I walked in the house this evening to find a letter from Triumph. No worries, it's nearly 2 years since I got Bertie, so I'm expecting a reminder about the two year service and the end of the warranty (dunno why, didn't get one with the black one....)
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It was a letter dated the 16th March, about how road salt can have corrosive affects on brakes and what I should do, eg, a wash with cold (not hot or warm) water or a coating of grease is good. there's also a list of amended daily checks to take this in to account.
Yet the frank mark on the envelope was dated Friday......
I don't get it.
Did anyone else get one????
Gina
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06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
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Yep. Got mine in the post today too???  Maybe Triumph have seen a rise in corrosion related faults with the front calipers and pre-empting warranty claims by forewarning owners of their observations. This then puts the responsibility of ensuring all is ok directly onto the owner. But maybe I am being overly cynical??
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A coating of grease on the brakes????????
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...It was a letter dated the 16th March, about how road salt can have corrosive affects on brakes and what I should do, eg, a wash with cold (not hot or warm) water or a coating of grease is good. there's also a list of amended daily checks to take this in to account.
Yet the frank mark on the envelope was dated Friday......
I don't get it.
Well Gina, the word is that the Triumph management team discovered just a week ago that instead of heading to the Post Office each day, Colin the mail boy had for months and months been stuffing all of his work into his locker and heading down the road to the Barley Sheaf Pub for about 5 or 6 hours a day.
 
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Did anyone else get one????
Okay, sorry. No, I didn't get one o' those letters delivered to me here in Arizona.
(...and maybe 'cause, as you might know, we normally don't have to use road salt around these here parts!)
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Only letter I ever got from Triumph was a recall notice about having to relocate the rear master cylinder because of something about bad things happening if the bike tipped over. The dealer around here is too far away to bother and the bad things that happened when my bike 'tipped' over didn't seem to affect the rear brake.
Maybe it is just a Triumph UK thing.
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A coating of grease on the brakes????????
I think there talking about putting grease on the the pins the where the pads slid.. so they move freely and don't bind
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Well Gina, the word is that the Triumph management team discovered just a week ago that instead of heading to the Post Office each day, Colin the mail boy had for months and months been stuffing all of his work into his locker and heading down the road to the Barley Sheaf Pub for about 5 or 6 hours a day.
Well, THAT makes sense. The lad was merely 'going his own way!'
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After a really warm week, a wet weekend and another warm day, I walked in the house this evening to find a letter from Triumph. No worries, it's nearly 2 years since I got Bertie, so I'm expecting a reminder about the two year service and the end of the warranty (dunno why, didn't get one with the black one....)
No.
It was a letter dated the 16th March, about how road salt can have corrosive affects on brakes and what I should do, eg, a wash with cold (not hot or warm) water or a coating of grease is good. there's also a list of amended daily checks to take this in to account.
Yet the frank mark on the envelope was dated Friday......
I don't get it.
Did anyone else get one????
Yes I had mine too Gina. I have filed it somewhere safe.
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A coating of grease on the brakes????????
While I was in the army, the guy in the tire shop tried greasing the squeaky brakes on the 3/4 ton tire field repair truck. Only the transmission mounted hand brake saved him from getting shot by the gate guard.
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Road salt will destroy anything in a short time. Maybe they have been having complaints about rusty brake parts causing braking problems.
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A coating of grease on the brakes????????
A COATING OF GREASE ON THE BRAKES!!????????
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