What has failed on your AT

[paultheold]

Well we have spent a long time saying how good the AT is, now I notice that threads are starting to point out the bikes failings. Not including tyres, brakes, ect.

My bikes failures: [ present mileage 27k. Age 1998. owned from new]

Gear Box failure. loss of case hardening on second gear causing total strip and build.

Paint failure on engine casings, respray of both covers.

Frame paint breakdown, part respray of frame.

Rectifier, caused grief twice once on the way to a Rally. now fitted with extra heat shield

Internal corrosion of rear wheel rim, causing spokes to work loose.

My bikes weak points:

Clutch cable frays near clutch
Rectifier

Strong Points

Rest of cables well covered at handle bars
Brake pistons I have never had to work on the calipers [only change pads]

Lets see if there is a pattern about to form

[Blues N Twos]

Well I have the same model and year and mileage.

Previous owner has replaced the choke cable....... thats all.

Oh, and the rear wheel bearings and new chain and sprockets.

I had the wheels respoked and powder coated but that was my choice. As we all know the wheels do suffer.

Sounds like you have been unlucky. I have touched up the frame on mine but it was only minor bits hear and there.

Jon

[DaveS]

Mines just coming up to 3 years old, and has done 26K just about.

The engine covers either side have corroded and the paint is flaking.

The front wheel rim looks slightly corroded but not sure how badly it is inside. The back is fine as it gets loads of oil from the Scottoiler on it!

Ummm oh and the Digital Trip has just stopped working, but I think its the Speedometer feed that's at fault.

No other problems really. All my other bikes have been much worse!

[samih]

Mine's a '98 with 45k miles, owned since 21k.

The only genuinely failed bit so far has been the connection between generator and rectifier that caused me flat battery on two occasions. I remade it but later on changed the rectifier before a long trip last year (precaution) but the new connector also failed this winter. After a remake #2 with new spade connectors and lots of insulating tape it will hopefully last now.

I have also replaced the original fuel pump with the now common Pie (you all thank me for this ) after seeing the state of the std. one at 28k but the original didn't quite fail on me.

The bike suffers from corrosion on frame and engine sides thanks to two winters outside as everybody elses. There is also a dent on fuel tank and the fairings are in bit of a mess but can't blame Honda for this. Can blame him for quality of fasteners though.

The front brake pistons seized really bad this year, had to strip and clean them and applied some copper paste in moving parts.

One of the illumination bulbs failed on speedo, replaced all four of them at that stage. My tripmaster also has a cracked rubber seal, noticed it while doing the speed mod and fixed it with bathroom silicone to prevent future flooding of the instrument.

Anyway I love her and wish her many more happy miles. I think she's a great bird and looks more and more characteful with advancing years.

Edit. Yeah, forgot: The clutch cable was just about to snap a few thousand miles ago.

[Northy]

Seven years ..50,000 miles the following
2 batteries
1 rectifier
1 set of brake piston/seals on the front brakes
1 set of front discs ...orginal cracked overheating (heavy on brakes is me )
1 set of fork seals
1 speedo drive -plastic bit only
1 set of braided pipes -original just to soft
2 sets of front wheel bearings
1 set of rear wheel bearing
2 sets of chain and sprockets and loads of tyres
1 clutch cable (all the others original)

My rear rim is corroded on the inside
Repainted the front down tube a number of times plus rear subframe and about 5 punctures.

....all in my little blue book

Northy

No fuel pump problems....contacts checked yearly

[robelst]

'94 RD07 bike bought 2 years ago with 30k-miles, problems up to 46k:
Front brake pistons and disks, one front brake caliper, fuel pump, rectifier, rear wheel bearings, 2 speedo cables, clutch basket and -cable, couple of dash lights, head stock bearings, front-fork seals/dustcaps and bushes, welding of exhaust (new pipe on bottom of silencer), new coolerfan (motor broken). Wheels corroded to such an extent spokes needs regular attention. Frame bit rusty as well.

Sounds rather disasterous, but I suppose many of these things are more or less wear and tear / age-related (I left out the new battery, chain and sprockets for this very reason ) I expected better though, already had more repairs with this bike than I ever had with my NTV 650 at 3 times the mileage.

[jvaughan]

2003 RD07A.
10,000 miles, have owned since 2000 miles.

One set of tyres.

Thats all!.

Have removed, greased and replaced the wheel bearings, and also cleaned both wheels (inside and out). No signs of corrosion hew!:

[Mustafa]

1998 (black/gold - the best), 6,500 miles, Austrian specs. Have only had it for a few months and the single failure so far was my attempting to get it up on the center stand by myself . It ended up on its side instead, with just a minor mark on the engine guard.
Mike

[snaphappyninja]

10 years, 46000 miles all by me...owned since new.

Frame and engine paint flaking (starting to sound familiar)
Rectifier at 40000 (again not unusual)
Fuel pump at 46000 (last week in fact Replaced with the Pierburg pump as suggested)
1 set rear wheel bearings
1 set of piston seals to rebuild the front brakes
1 rear disk (am harder on the back than the front although i reckon the fronts will need doing soon)
1 speedo cable (40000 miles + so not too bad)
1 battery
several spokes and agian i think the corrosion is setting in

Also had to have new mounting points welded on the front downtube for the bellypan as the others fell off (due to fitting crashbars). Also had welding done in the rear subframe.

4th set of chain and sprockets (not bad and a damn sight better than any of my other bikes)
too many rear tyres to remember (have had a least 5 bad puntures over the years) but only on my 3rd front.
2nd set of fairing and 3rd fuel tank (2x crashes and 1 stolen and recovered...little B$%&^$%s)

[robelst]

I think (even) I can see a pattern emerging here:
front brake, fuel pump, rectifier, rotting wheels and other forms of premature corrosion.

Mr Honda could address all that in the unlikely event they'd design a new AT.

I guess wheel- and headstock bearings, cables, batteries and chain/sprockets are not necessarily worse than on other bikes? (considering the average age / mileage and typical (all-season) use of our beloved bikes).