• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Extended warrantee -worth while?

D

DougW

Husqvarna
AA Class
So my new TE250 has had some issues that are being fixed as I type this. In light of these problem and finding other things that lead me to think the quality of my husky isn't as I had expected, I might have the opportunity to purchase an extended warrentee for the bike.

So I'm looking for thoughts on if an extended warrentee is worth while dealing with a husky? Are there things other than "wear" items they would not cover or are these types of warrentee's just a scam?

Thanks
Doug
 
How much are you talking for this warranty?

How responsive do you think your dealer will be if you have more problems with the bike?

I would imagine that an extended warranty on a dual sport/off-road bike will be pretty restrictive.
 
What's up Doug...it's Double. The way my warrantee was explained to me was that it covers everything except normal wear items. if your fi takes a dump...it's covered, blow your top end...covered, need new clutch plates, brake pads, etc....not covered. I got the 4 yr extended for $900(?)...i think it added about $12/month to my payment. I figured one top end would pay for the warrantee. If I never use it, great....$12/month is worth a little peice of mind for me. I've always been a 2 stroke guy where motor repair wasn't so pricey, all the horror stories i've heard about 4 stroke repair, I figured what the heck, it's worth a shot.
 
I was reading a magazine probably Cycle world but not sure last month in an article about the te 250 and it stated no warranty. It also said no real deal breakers which no waranty for something claiming to be 50 state legal seems like a deal breaker to me. That seems to square with the posts here from folks with fuel pump problems and getting "deals" from site sponsors here for new ones. Is this warranty kind of an aftermarket product or from the manufacturer/distributor? Getting a straight answer about a warranty in the bike world seems problematic. Admittedly it wasn't a husky last month I tried to get a straight answer from a dealer they wouldn't show me the text and said it was a warranty of defects in manufacturing and workmanship and thought that answered the question for good. As for Husky from wandering around here I see 250 employees somewhere so I expect virtually all of the castings and components aren't made by them that seems barely enough for the office and assembly line. And I suppose engineering must be some of that number as well.

Fran
 
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