Please be informed that all P-200 are likely to be recalled by Bajaj Auto Ltd because front fork has a major design defect/metal fatigue issues and a few bikes have collapsed .
Do not ride your bikes till such time your fork is replaced free of cost by BAL.
BAL Management is looking at this issue very seriously but have not yet made a general announcement/recall through the media and is not likely to do so.
However, Probiking dealers are pressing BAL hard for answers to issues raised by customers. The dealers have been told that all forks to be replaced free of cost(only from those customers who have complaints!).
It may be unsafe for all P-200 owners to use the bike till all issues are resolved by BAL.
Kindly pass this message to all your friends, this is a serious safety issue.
Copy paste from BikeNomads post by Bajaj Probiking dealer at Bangalore
"We would like to have the Forks in hand before calling up a customer for a
recall. We would not like to commit & then cut a sorry figue to you saying
"Sir the Fork is yet to come in / todays stock is thro’ sir!"
These Forks would arrive on daily basis from the vendor & hence reducing the
Space & logisitic issues at the Dealerships.
All vehciles replaced with new forks have to updated on
the Server of BAL.
A vehicle sold by a dealer, not traced hence no retrofit done, then the
dealer becomes answerable at very many fourms inside BAL. More specifically
Probiking dealers have a Walk on the Knife edge. Any silly mistake, the
Probiking teams pulls them up very very badly, these types, well it might
cost them Probiking logo going off.
Please note that Replacement decisions can’t happen very soon. There are
couple of other things to look into mainly the Law of the Land. Any way the
Replacements are underway & would be completed in a few days.
At this point of time it would be premature to call Customers informing them
about the Possible Failures. This would be pressing the Panic button in
them. Pressing the Panic button+ the arrival of the customer at the
Workshop, Chaos etc causes even more Distress in them.
Banglore has about 400 P-2’s, now if all the 400 come into the workshops for the
replacement. All customers want priority in their replacement. This
would lead to chaos, thus leading to greater dissatisfaction. Practically we
We can push ourselves to about 25~35 Replacements a day, Beyond that fatigue
takes over & there could be some side effects too.
*Don’t worry, BAL would help all those who have trusted them & bought this
beautiful machine out of this possible Crisis.
Hope its clear.
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Bye & have a Safe Ride
Venkat Shyam, BV
Auto Service
(M)+91 94480 40349
email: v.v.shyam@gmail. com