2008 Stelvio with cracked fork leg bottom, pinch bolts over tightened. Fixable or replace?

My brothers bike and before you ask niether of us were responsable and the dealer isn't interested, in fairess it would be hard to prove they had done the deed.

Thanks.

Dealer must be an idiot. The issue has been well documented for four years and service bulletins about the importance of not over-tightening the hex bolts and/or replacing them with allen bolts, (As was done on later bikes.) to reduce the risk of over-torquing and snapping the casting were published on the Servicemotoguzzi site years ago.

Only choice is to replace. Bad luck.

Pete

Been there done that.
I'd think he should be able to claim warranty coverage due to it being a latent defect that is well documented by Guzzi

Get the dealer to approach Piaggio and make a noise about it.

Just as you prompted me to do use the sale of good act, 6 years etc

It's just is never ending is it, dealer's with their heads up their butt.

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I keep inspecting, and no sign of crackage....can you send a photo?

A recall by year was done in Europe on the left hand fork. Mine cracked and was replaced by the dealer, it didn't crack immediately, but as Pete says its all well documented that there was a problem. I have two mates with Stelvios one cracked the other didn't, but it was still changed by the dealer - most dealers seem to have done the right thing. I'd suggest you go back to the dealer again if no help then Piaggio, but the dealers are suppose to fix this sort of thing.

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Stelvio
Ducati S4S
Triumph Bonneville T140V

Thank you for the replies, I've passed on a link to this page to my brother, steve, hopefully he'll go armed with this information and get a better result than he did yesterday.

Is there a chance that just the bottom part of the fork leg can be purchased? (black bit that holds spindle and calliper)

Cheers

windy

In a different thread I refered to the person that was the last to work on the bike in respect to removing and replacing the front wheel as a Neanderthol, I stand by this comment but should point out it wasn't the dealer Steve bought the bike from, it seems it was done when the front tyre was replaced.

Dealer is being very helpful.

windy

In the recall it is the fork leg that is replaced which includes the black hub at the bottom, don't see how you could replace just the black hub on its own.

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Stelvio
Ducati S4S
Triumph Bonneville T140V

It's looking like Guzzi Dealer is going to replace the fork leg and I'm pretty sure this site played a part in making this happen, thanks for your replies and thanks for this site. In terms off Guzzis it's the equivelent of AF1 aprilia site, both top notch biking sites... Cheers fellas

windy