Rattles
There are so many potential areas for rattles, over the past few months I have come across a number of loose bolts, poor clips, bad insert rivets etc.
Loose nuts on the clutch lever to the point where it was almost ready to drop off, front bottom fairing and cowl bolts loose, speedo cowl bolt loose, rear right hand passenger grab bolt stripped (needed a helicoil insert).
There is a lot of problems with the manufacture / assembly of this bike - another one is the backlight LED's on the speedo flickering and dying - just repaired mine but broke the reset switch during the repair!
This bike has been assembled in Thailand, (mainly) so is as about third world labour as you can get, hopefully it has at least been through some sort of internationally recognized QA rating, but I really would not be surprised as it being poor quality if assembled here.
Honda no doubt have "qualified" local vendors for their piece parts - i.e. I doubt it if much is shipped from Japan. then take a look at the price, it isn't exactly up there like a BMW is it?
Of course they have taken shortcuts, of course a lot of the parts would not meet Western QA standards, it is a cheap bike that in general runs very well, but if you expect a Rolls Royce from Thailand you will be long dead by the time you ever see anything close.
If something went wrong on the production lines - stripping threads as an example, the workers would just keep assembling and stripping, it is totally alien to the culture here to question anything or admit fault.
Make the best use of your warranty, I know most Thais would never dare take a suspect bike back to the dealer in the first place for fear of confrontation and good old lack of face.
They would rather smile, walk away, stew on it, get drunk then go back and blow the dealers head off!
