Prompt response from Suzuki

Hello everyone,
I had posted a feedback of low mileage on suzuki website on fri last week and pleased to get a call on monday from Mr.Deepak Saxena.He listened to grievances and promised to call up the SC guys in Pune and also asked me to call him up on his cell when giving my bike for 2nd service tomorrow.
So i am pretty happy with their response till now, lets see what happens at SC.
Also i have bought Shell SX4 oil bottle, can i ask SC guys to change it for me ????
Since my bike is just 2k kms old i was thinking of replacing it later.
Please advise

The SC guys will change it for you.You can keep the old one in your spare kit.Sorry I have no clue about the cost.

You don't have to find a petrol pump as soon as bike hits reserve. You can ride upto 100-150kms in reserve.

Rather than the indicator, rely on the bike's feel. If main tank gets empty, bike will start choking. Then in running only, you can change it to reserve, and if you have good balance, you can reset the trip meter to zero for next mileage reading.

I am going to buy a Osram Silverstar 55/60W bulb today, and in servicing tomorrow, I am requesting them to disable the pilot lamps (saving 10W) and put this bulb. Can you pls shed some light on the regulator stuff? I spoke with the manager, but he didn't have any idea on this.

Of course I know that! I was just helping that guy to calculate his mileage.
In my bike's case, it has 2 litres of reserve which can give me at the best 86 kms. but it is not advisable to push it that much as it is fuel injected.

The regulator is a heavy one & gives better output than the older lot. You need to check with the SC guys if they have got a regulator of the new lot.There is no design difference & both appear to be the same.If you have good relation with the SC guys just ask them to connect a new one from the new lot to your bike & then light up the 55/60w maybe you should get some results.ALL THE BEST!!!!

Vishal

Thanks buddy. I have good relations with the manager, so I hope I will be able to get this done. Will update day after tomorrow about my light quest

I think the sealed battery is very good. i've noticed that my battery gets wet almost every time i ride through rain. any way to prevent it from getting wet ??
its pretty dangerous, and i dont want the battery to get short circuited so soon either
Did they change pilot lamps to dc in the new lot ??
i hav to try and get the new regulators for free somehow from the SC.
is regulator and relay the same thing ??

I heart from mechaincs that this idea is not accurate.

Hope you know that the pertol piples have sensors and they would not let the petrol overflow for cars. For bike you can see directly and he will stop once the tank is full :-)

Friend, GS 150R full take is, say around 16 lts? average mileage would be 55 KMPL? 3 Lts reserve means 12 Lts of petrol from Full tank to reserve? out of 12 Lts you can ride for 660 Kms. If few ML of petrol is not accurate between 2 Full Tanks hardly it would differ by 2-5 Kms and for 12 Lts. So that should not matter at all.

Just to give you an example why that R to R method is not ok. Get 100 Rs petrol filled and ride till next reserve. Once you get next reserve open the tank cap and re close it and bike will go for next 2-3 Kms bec there will be Air formed inside the tank. So you can not be sure about the meleage between R to R.

This is just for discussion. Anyone has any other thought, kindly share here.

Can someone who bought GS150 recently (new lot) post some feedback... Does it have any issues (mainly rusting, rough engine & other problems that first lot had?)

How is it going to affect the mileage? I dont see any point in what u told. Make it clear.
Reserve to Reserve method is also accurate but not as accurate as Full tank to Full tank method.
But it accuracy increases as u increase the amount of fuel u fill between the two reserve positions.

My Friend, it is very easy to deny others' point. I personally experienced this and different mechanics also say the same thing.

Ok, i will explain the thing in scientific way. If you observe closely, you would find a very small hole in the petrol tank cap. And that is kept there for the air flow into the tank from outside so that petrol can go into the carburetter easily. You try to block the hole, petrol will stop flowing. As and when the petrol reduces in the tank, more empty space will create and more diff for the petrol to flow. So when you get to reserve open the cap and close it and you can still start the bike. I do not, completely say that the R to R method is inaccurate but Full to Full or Full to Empty is more accurate.

Again, this is just for the discussion purpose. I may be or may not be correct. I will, for sure, correct myself if i come to know that what i know is not correct :-)

I have brought it recently and no such worries..I had brought the bike on 14th nov.

@SanjuKoli

Good.... I guess 10 days is too early to say because even old lot bikes were smooth & good for couple of months.... But I hope the new bikes stay that way for a long long time

BTW, for ppl who are not familar with Old GS, how will we know if a bike belongs to new lot or old lot? Is there any quick way to tell?

new lot supposedly has 7.5ah battery.
old lot had 9ah battery.

and i dont think there is any change with respect to engine in old n new lot.

and if smoothness meant no vibrations, then its been smooth from beginning.
if smoothness meant sound from engine, then its not that smooth.

You can overfill petrol even in a car-I have had both my cars tanks overflowing.

The tank capacity is always stated upto the filler cap. If you go on filling, and shake the vehicle a bit, you can easily fill 1-1.5 litres more, without overflowing. I have tried it many a time when going on a long ride/drive. We have filled around 18lts.in my friend's RTR just to check this!

Right. Thats why the best method to test mileage is with 100ml.can connected to the tank, by asking someone to hold it behind.
Any other method will have atleast 2-3 kms.error, thats why I take a round figure of 10 lts.so that 2-3kms.doesn't matter much.

This is what I do for my R15:
1. When the bike comes to reserve, it creates a new tripmeter with F reading 0.0. I try to fill fuel within 2-3 kms. (there is no petrol on-off knob)
2. When I fill fuel, I reset the tripmeter 1. Fill exactly 10 litres.
3. The next time the bike comes to reserve, the F meter comes up.
4. Now I reset tripmeter 2.
Say now tripmeter 1 says I travelled 428 kms.
I need to subtract tripmeter 2 from it (distance taken now to reach petrol pump after coming to reserve), say 3 kms.
Also I need to subtract the distance to fuel station taken when I first filled petrol, say 2 kms.
Now this leaves me with 423 kms./10 litres, which is 42.3 kmpl.
The method will work for any amount of fuel IMO.

In case of my older carburetted bike Fiero F2, I follow the same, but since there is no indication that the bike is coming to reserve, I need to ride it till it stops, then turn the fuel knob to reserve position&of course reset the single tripmeter it has.
2-3 kms.before the bikes comes to reserve, it starts jerking, so I know its time for reserve. But I still ride it till it stops.
Your inputs please.