• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Bmw Incurs 3 Million Penalty

I hav to wonder how evenly this kind of stuff is enforced. I had a 2000 ford F150 that was using an ancra tie down trippled back and forth under the front part of the gasoline tank for a few years and the recall notice came in the mail right about the time the other strap gave out and I noticed the tank low. Virtually the same thing on the tie rod ends which never was a recall just a vague letter about how the measuring technique had been changed. These things can be quite a burden on the entity selling them, Ford keeps sending me notices as I havn't yet got my gasoline tank straps fixed and I havn't yet turned in the plates as it is now off the road.

I note a few of the motorcycle items below the article doesn't give any idea how much of the fine is motorcycle related.



Recall Number: 10 V 274 000
Date: 15-JUN-2010
Models: 2008-2009 F650GS and F800GS
Subject: Drive Chain Can Break
Potentially Defective: 1,916
I thought they used a continious chain with no masterlink and charged customers to remove the swingarm for a chain and sprocket job. If that is true I am curious of the specifics here.





Recall Number: 10 V 276 000
Date: 15-JUN-2010
Models: 2007-2009 R1200 and K1200
Subject: Front Brake Lines
Potentially Defective: 15,532
Intresting but how many were really defective.


Recall Number: 10 V 328 000
Date: 19-JUL-2010
Models: 2005-2009 R1200RT Police
Subject: Audible Signaling Device Bracket
Potentially Defective: 1,900
They actually have sold that many police bikes in four years?

Recall Number: 10 V 488 000
Date: 08-OCT-2010
Models: 2005-2011 Motorcycles
Subject: Rear Wheel Linkage
Potentially Defective: 11,826
 
Probably cheaper to pay the 3million than address the issues- if buyer dissatisfaction and safety were not considered an issue... though I would hope that would be the first and foremost concern. No Husky models reported- but if we will fix it and revel in our abilities and only complain if we can't.
 
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