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Originally Posted by baldheadeddork
I smell bullshit. No manufacturer will screw around with service intervals as a marketing gimmick because the stakes are just too high. If the increased intervals leads to oil passages being blocked with gunk, Ducati will have to replace thousands of engines. (Which happened to Toyota two years ago.)
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Wait, now I smell bullshit. You said that "no manufacturer will screw around..." then you cite an example of the No.2 (soon to be No.1) auto manufacturer in the world that did just that. You're not great at making compelling arguments, it seems. Besides, "oil passages clogged with gunk?" Are you serious? We're talking about 1098's that run fully synthetic racing oil. "clogged with gunk". That's rich. Not much experience in the corporate world, huh? Guess what, there's constant struggle between the people that create a product, and the bean counters and marketers. Ducati is no different.
You don't think a company desperate enough to lower the sales price of their flagship line by $1000 in an effort to compete with the Japanese, would tell their engineers to push the service limits to the edge so that they can address the No. 1 stereotypical complaint of their brand, and brag from the mountaintops that there is "50% less maintenance" (and it even has it's own logo).
I'm just telling you what I heard from a salesman at a dealership on Ducati 1098 day.
Cheers!
