Janardhanan

@torQ , its good that your problem got resolved.

Even i had some problem's in my FI.. and service engineers took the bike and did the required work, now i dont get that prob at all (had engine stalling and RPM reduction problem) .

even this weekend i gave my bike for 3 rd service. when i took my bike on sunday even, the bike's acceleration was hillarous, if i just twist the throttle the rpm goes till 7000 rpm and stays there put..

i shouted at the service centre guy as they had my bike for two days and did nothing. indeed the bike was good before i gave it for service.

THen i spoke to TVS service manager and told him about this issue, he called up the service centre guys and blasted them. I got my bike deleiverred to my home by the service centre guys itself. and now the accelerator is even smoother .

really the top people in TVS show come commitment. It's only the Service centre people who spoil the party

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rennycornelius

@TorQ:

good to hear that TVS acted quite fast.

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rocker

Hey guys tell me what to do ?? My bike is going sluggish day by day, whereas I am taking a good care of it. It felt like someone is just pulling it from behind. RPMs are very hard to build and bike starts screaming from as low as 3k rpm. Top-speed is also decreasing day by day like 118-115-111 and today just 105 after a lot of efforts. Guys at SC are just two less qualified and less trained mechanics.

I don't have time because of my busy schedule but I gave a lot of time to those guys to make my front brake working but they failed each time. Even once they spoiled my front mudguard (with brake fluid) which they still didn't replaced. Even my relationship with those guys is good but they are not capable humans (I think) but they thinks they are the Ferrari engineers. As I told you earlier my Techo was giving me problems, they didn't work on that and even didn't replace that until I found the fault on my own. The problem was in wiring and to repair that (when I told them the fault) they opened the headlight dome and now its vibrating.

Guyzz plz help me in finding out what are the things because of which I am having these problems (brake, top speed and hard to build rpms) and what should I have to tell them so that they will able to get my bike in to shape (I will not say again because I don't think that it was in shape ever). You will be amaze by hearing that "I never found the RTR punch in by bike which you all are talking about" and I was always convincing myself by thinking that "its a 160 not a liter class superbike". Front brake is very weak and lever play is inconsistent.

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krishnan6015

Dude, It once happened to me. My top end got decreased and pulling was not that much after 60kmph. I checked with the mechanic in SVC and he also came with me for the ride. The culprit in my case was fuel filter. He said the fuel filter needs to be changed every 8000km, mine was 7100 at that time. He changed the fuel filter under warranty. After changing the fuel filter the throttle was crisp and without much effort it reached 100kmph, Do check your fuel filter..

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rocker

Hey thanks buddy . I have done 8900 kms in 4 months. I just don't know what you guyz call a CRISP THROTTLE. Mine was just a normal bike from start. But yes I will just check the fuel filter as I will get some time to go to SC. I just need my bike to run fast and scream less (I think not so big expectations).

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kauria

One small question to all Carbureted RTR owners, did you check the spark plug colour regularly? What colour u found say after running 200 km max. I always found black, the ring are black two electrodes are black with dry shot of carbon, and even the ceramic part is also black in one side. Nowadays I am getting a mileage of 43 kmpl, bike is also smooth and the idle screw is 2 & half open from full close position.

I used to refill my bike when it comes to reserve, at that time I usually fill 200 bucks of fuel witch mean 4.14 liter of normal fuel. It runs perfect 180 km and came to reserve. This black deposition in spark plug hamper the performance of the bike, after cleaning the plug it acts good again, but hardly for another 200 km, again I have to clean the plug.

IS THAT A PROBLEM? Or is it the nature of RTR?

If possible will u put any pic of your plug after riding it for say 200 or more km.

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rennycornelius

the colour you mentioned indicates a rich mixture...
the colour of the spark plug should be light golden brown or "roasted" brown.
and plug needs checking at every 500kms, 200 is frequently you're doing.

clean it with sandpaper and safety pin and relace it back and make the mixture lean by half of half turn.

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@torq,
Good to hear that you have got ur bike well...

shobhonroy

Query: does the Apache even have a fuel filter? If yes, where is it? The only fuel filters I have seen are those fitted externally, below the fuel cock. I take it that fuel filter and oil (engine oil) filter are different entities.

kauria

He try to mean the Fi only, which comes with a special fuel filter below the tank.

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