• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

first service

Katten

Katten

Husqvarna
AA Class
Hi!
Does anyone know if Husqvarna has a limit on how much it is okey to drive before the first service?
I'm out for a tour and may drive 150km more than is said in the service manual. First service should be at 1000km and if I drive the roads I wish the odometer will be at 1150km...
I'm not able to contact my dealer shop until tomorrow and I want to go today....because I love my new Terra ;)
 
1000km/600 miles is just an arbitrary number. There should be no issue performing the first service a few hundred km either side of that 1000km mark. There are probably equal pros and cons for going for a shorter or longer interval.
 
I went almost 900 miles before I could get in for mine. Never thought about it and had NO detrimental effect.
 
Your first oil change is the most important part. A new motor has machining roughness that wears in and those particles will be in the oil and filter. If you do nothing else, change the oil at or around the 600 mile mark. You could run the bike without ever changing the oil, but at what mileage would it be worn out?

In a new motor, the rings have not sealed 100%, so bits of carbon do get past the rings and into the oil, Diamonds are made of carbon. So think of it as polishing grit, suspended in the oil. How long do you wish that grit to "polish your crank", and other parts?

Just change the oil, using the recommended oil. As long as your at it, look the bike over, check all other fluids etc. Check and wiggle things, look for chaffing, especially at the clutch cable by the radiator, and rear break reservoir.

In summery, change the damn oil, no excuses, the single most important thing in any motors life. You need to do this, oil changes in my book are the owners responsibility, just like wiping your own bum. An extra oil change at service will not hurt the bike.
 
mag00 said:
Your first oil change is the most important part. A new motor has machining roughness that wears in and those particles will be in the oil and filter. If you do nothing else, change the oil at or around the 600 mile mark. You could run the bike without ever changing the oil, but at what mileage would it be worn out?

In a new motor, the rings have not sealed 100%, so bits of carbon do get past the rings and into the oil, Diamonds are made of carbon. So think of it as polishing grit, suspended in the oil. How long do you wish that grit to "polish your crank", and other parts?
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hahaha. All forms of life on earth are made of carbon. Human, animal, plant etc. I wish I was as tough as diamonds. I don't think the OP was suggesting that she should never ever change the oil, just asking whether an extra 100 miles would make any difference.
 
just asking whether an extra 100 miles would make any difference.
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Yes thats right! Oil change and most of the things are easy to do yourself, but for the warranty to be valid I want to follow the dealers rules!

Thank you for your help everybody.
I have first service booked in on thursday, the odometer is att 1100km so I´m sure they will have nothing to say about it at the Husqvarna dealer shop!
 
nev.. said:
hahaha. All forms of life on earth are made of carbon. Human, animal, plant etc. I wish I was as tough as diamonds. I don't think the OP was suggesting that she should never ever change the oil, just asking whether an extra 100 miles would make any difference.
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Just jump in the oven set to combustion temps, and you are good to go. But then your status will change from fossil to carbon. :p

One of the guys, here or the other place, regales us with how artificial diamonds are made. Very interesting indeed. Heat and pressure... much like a combustion chamber...:oldman:

As far as keeping warranty intact, well, that will be a decision made by the dealer and Husky based on the failure. If the engine goes and they think it is related to not changing the oil, even if the oil had nothing to do with it, and you missed your first service, too bad so sad. I think that 100 miles would be a tough fight to void the warranty, but 200 or 300 may not be.

This again will also come to play with how your dealer handles warranties, they want to get paid for the work.

I shall put it this way, if your motor blew at 5k, and you didn't have the service done until 1k, I would void the warranty, if it was due to a smoking or similar wear issue. If it was a catastrophic failure do to a bad part, you would be covered. But that is just me. Those numbers are not arbitrary numbers pulled out of a hat.

Please do not minimize the importance of getting the carbon particulates out of the oil. I laugh at the fools who think just because they run expensive oil, that the oil change interval somehow is extended. The black in your oil at changing, isn't metal particles, it is abrasive carbon particles. The shiny metallic glisten, well, hope you never see that.

The point is this: Just because you can, is not reason to do so. Have some respect for the machinery and those who designed and built the masterpiece. Develop a healthy relationship with your bike, it will serve you better.
 
mag00 said:
Those numbers are not arbitrary numbers pulled out of a hat.
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For decades, almost every manufacturer of every engine in every car/bike has scheduled a 1000km/600mile first service. That just screams arbitrary numbers to me.
 
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