My V7ii is the first new bike I've owned that had an engine oil leak. Lol...should I have expected anything different?? And ....And the factory brake master cylinder cover is garbage. The dealer got me a proper cover off an older V7 model.
Same here. That was one of my 2 warranty claims. Guzzi USA specifies the older cap as a warranty replacement, so the newer ones must have been considered to be "problematic".
My other warranty claim was that the stick-on amber reflectors on the front fork tubes both disappeared. Here the problem was that the matte black paint on the forks interfered with proper adhesion. I got new reflectors on warranty and applied them myself. The trick was to properly prepare the painted fork tubes. After cleaning the old gunk off, I applied a coat of genuine 3M #94 Tape Primer ($1.50 for a small bottle on ebay including shipping!), let it dry (nearly instantly), and then stuck on the reflectors. Good to go.
I'll probably be having one other warranty claim. As has been reported by others here, the plastic ABS and TC warning lights are beginning to crumble around the edges and will probably disintegrate completely eventually. I'm going to wait until close to the end of my warranty period next May to have them replaced. I hope that by then MG will have seen the error in their ways and come up with a more robust replacement.
Considering the zillions of parts that go into a motorcycle, I think MG threw my V7II together pretty well.
