Triumphrat

winger · 01-16-2006

For the guys on this board from that neck of the woods i hear that the dealer on the coventry road has gone is that bust?? or moved??didn't last very long!!

iansoady · 01-17-2006

I did pop in there about 8 months ago when I was looking for a Tiger but wasn't very impressed. It never seemed busy, and seemed to be an appendage to the Mitsubishi(?) dealer already on the site.

I eventually got mine from Knotts in Stratford who seem reasonable. Any other experiences here?

tcowjww · 01-17-2006

Yes indeed.

I took my Tiger in to the place on the Coventry Road for a minor service, which wasn't completed without incident; their regular mechanic (really good guy) was away on training so they got a Mitsubishi guy to do the work which was not carried out to a satisfactory standard. A shame really, if they'd asked me whether I'd rather have had the work done quickly by a Mitsu engineer, or wait a week to have a Triumph engineer do the work, I would have been more than happy with the latter.

In all my dealings the staff in the Triumph side were the most delightful, helpful people you could hope to meet - but suffice to say my personal experience with the Mitsubishi side was less than pleasing. I suspect that knocking out Mitsubishi EVOs to rich kids is more profitable than motorcycles - call me a cynic, but I wonder if we'll see the Mitsubishi dealership expanding in to the old Triumph half of the dealership soon? I'm still waiting to have the rubber o-rings replaced on my fuel tank couplings which it would seem the Mitsu engineer damaged whilst it was in for service, but I think I'm probably out of luck and will have to put it down to experience and sort it myself.

I have heard good things about Knott's of Stratford and Action Motorcycles in Redditch, so I will most likely be getting future stuff done by one of them.

T.

winger · 01-17-2006

Actually Triumph have somewhat of an up and down relationship with dealers in the West Mids particularly after the Ideal Garage episode,I'm a Windy Corner man nowhere days!!!.

I'll tell my story of dealings with Black Country motorcycles one of these days!!!!

iansoady · 01-17-2006

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On 2006-01-17 07:38, winger wrote:
.....particularly after the Ideal Garage episode,....

Do tell us more?

winger · 01-17-2006

Ideal garage(Bromford Bridge) was Triumphs flag ship in the west mids,although they did sell Hondas as well,good shop with big turn over,went belly up for one and a half mill !!!!! after that Triumph have concentrated on much smaller shops,although even two of those have shut, one in Walsall,and the other at Bassets Pole.

paulvt1 · 01-17-2006

Winger. What problems have you had with B.C.M? I need to know as they are local to me and i need to know if it's worth me travelling further afield if needs be.
Thanks.

winger · 01-18-2006

Well i found e'm a real strange lot,went to see the lie of the land so to speak,told e'm i want my Tiger serviceing,but i only wanted the motor doing,shims,oil change(even though i normally do it myself) and new tune,and not to change the air filter as it was a new K+N,the look on the guys face didn't bode well,and when he said he didn't want to work on the Bike!!!!,i replied i'm not so sure i want you to!!!,went to Windy Corner were i told e'm what i wanted and they did it.

You will probably go there and find them Ok,just thought i'd give e'm a go being only 5 miles away,but there you go!!!!,never had someone turn work down,but there's a first time for everything!!.

sheepshagger · 01-24-2006

I bought my Tiger new from the (now defunct..) Solihul dealer and when I checked the frame and engine numbers on the bike they had actually registered the wrong bike! Not sure why I checked as I'm not usually that anal about that sort of stuff but I'm glad I did.. Maybe that's why they've gone under. They were really cool about it and did the 1st service for free as I had to give them a hand to swap the number plates over onto the correct, same colour bike from the showroom.. I'll try the reddich dealer for further servicing and products..

Tigerfeet · 01-24-2006

I bought my first Hinckley (a gorgeus 1200 platinum silver Trophy) from Speedaway at Blackheath in 2000. Dont here much about them either in Triumph circles.
Have they gone too?
TF.