My Yamaha R15 V4 feels almost new after the 28,571km service

On 22-Feb-2025, I headed directly to the ASC, paid the bill amount of INR 4463.60, collected the old parts and returned with a (new) R15! Oh god, you would not believe me: every part that was changed, gave me a all new feeling

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After my Chennai-Pondicherry ride and back to Bengaluru, I wanted to give my R15 for service at the earliest due to multiple reasons:

• The 'grr-grr-grr' sound that was persistent in the 1st and 2nd gears at low speeds during the end of the ride. This sound had given me a lot of mental disturbance!
• Get the accelerator cable checked, if replacement required. What made me feel so? More on this later below this post.
• I wanted to get the Rolon Brass Chain Sprocket kit installed, if at all the stock ones needed to be replaced.
• Get the entire bike inspected, because I am nearing the 30000 km odometer reading as well as three years of ownership on 12-Apr-2025!

I reached ASC late evening, after my office hours. As the SA (Mr. Chandar Singh) arrived, I briefed him about the 'grr-grr-grr' sound, which at that point of time, had almost faded. How on earth do vehicles know that they are at the ASC!? This is similar to how a small kid, who acts sick to avoid going to the school, gets all well when taken to a doctor!

SA penned down the routine periodic service checks: engine oil, engine oil filter, etc on to the job card. Checked for the brake lights, brake pad wear and external parts which does not require a ride to figure out. Trust me, other ASCs hardly perform these checks with attention to detail. This was one thing that I always admired about this ASC. The proprietor, Mr. Deepak Sir, if you are reading this post by any chance, hats off to you and your team here. Keep up the good work and team. So far, this is how the job card looked like:

After this, the SA hopped on to the rider's seat and went for a spin (which is done to all types of two wheelers that comes to this ASC). He came back and said these:

• Clutch assembly requires a replacement, pickup has dropped a lot. It will cost around INR 4500/- plus labor charges. Shall we proceed? I replied "yes", gulped down my throat.
• Chain sprocket needs to be replaced. This was causing that 'grr-grr-grr' sound. I handed him the Rolon Chain Sprocket kit.
• You want to renew the Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC)? I denied, reason being R15 will turn 3 years old and cross 30000 km by next service. So, felt this is no longer needed.
• Clutch assembly part is not in ready stock (he verified this with the spares, right there). The transparency I liked! He informed it would take few days to acquire the part, you want to drop the bike today itself? I agreed.

A week passed, there were no signs of any communication on the progress (disappointed me a little but I trust them). I checked with them on 18-Feb-2025, to which they said part is yet to arrive. No problem, this is a slow moving part. Might take time in logistics etc. All these days, I managed to commute to office with bus + metro, which is the hardest thing for me: public transport in India!

On 21-Feb-2025, I again called them, to which the SA informed "Sir, we inspected the clutch assembly. It still has good life, so we will not change this for the time being. While the accelerator cable will be replaced and you can collect your R15 tomorrow. Thank you sir". I was the happiest person that day!

Turned out the bill was compratively less to what I had expected when I had dropped her at ASC!

On 22-Feb-2025, I headed directly to the ASC, paid the bill amount of INR 4463.60, collected the old parts and returned with a (new) R15! Oh god, you would not believe me: every part that was changed (chain sprocket kit, the rear wheel damper, accelerator cable), gave me a all new feeling. While, Vinayak Yamaha won my trust, yet again. Below are the pictures of the old parts which I collected:

The muck and dirt accumulated: all thanks to the dusty, never ending construction works, almost everhwyere!

Now, this is how the new chain sprocket kit looks like on the R15:

R15 with the golden braces?

A quick picture before I departed the ASC with a feel of getting delivered a brand new R15!

Now, coming to what made me feel to get the accelerator cable replaced:

• First one being, the throttle play was something that I could feel is not normal since a month. At lower gears and slow speeds, I could 'feel' the throttle getting stuck at certain angle and I had to manually rotate it back to bring the RPM down while riding.
• Second one being the Coimbatore-Kochi ride back during my bachelor's in Dec-2018, where 6 of my friends and myself had rented 4 two wheelers. I had got a very old FZ v1 which had clocked ~60000 km. I did not have avid craze for bikes back then, but I feel grateful to be alive today after that one day ride. We had covered Athirapally falls and then headed to Fort Kochi, late evening. After a tiring ride from Coimbatore where we had started early morning. While my friends were behind me, and I was nearing Fort Kochi, my FZ's accelerator cable snapped, and I could freely play with the throttle. Soon, I myself parked safely and rang up my friends who had already reached the destination and started clicking selfies, while I was all alone: crying for help. By next day noon, we had to return the rented bikes back in Coimbatore. After a long wait, my friends somehow came with an accelerator cable from some shop, we towed the FZ manually to a nearby FNG, where the mechanic helped us during the last minute of his working hours. After all this, we then went to Lulu Mall, only to get some fresh air conditioned air and the same day late night, we started our ride back to Coimbatore. This one incident has always been in my mind since I brought R15: what if my R15's accelerator cable snaps someday? So, precaution is better than cure. This is the reason, I myself asked them to check and the ASC heard my request!

• I need to make sure that the Rolon Chain Sprocket is taken care off like a new baby: timely chain maintenance, with more care and intervals.
• Be gentle on the throttle and the clutch, to make sure the clutch assembly wise I do not get any surprises.
• I am planning to get the dented right side fairing to be replaced along with the right side fuel tank which has a small crack (not problem causing though).

Ride safe!
Sud.

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