VremGO
New Member
Bought my 390 about 3.5(?) years ago, warranty expired around 3 yrs ago, only 7k miles on the clock and the motor blew up, electric fan failed with warranty repair in the first 90 miles among several other warranty fixes but anyway...
Coolant in the combustion chamber and a little in the oil, slighty bent exhaust valves from touching the piston, piston frozen in the sleeve and the whole bottom end is pretty much toast from the rod cap separating and being tossed around it looks like...
Motor's in pieces at a local dealer waiting for their KTM tech to get back from vacation to see if KTM will cover it or not, so 2-3 weeks of suspense, KTM didn't sound very encouraging in a "we stand behind our products" kind of way when I called their customer support line probably due to it being way out of warranty (but only 7k miles!), really hoping I don't have to shell out $2000+ to fix a 3 year old bike with 7k miles on it, that's probably worth not even $4000 in good condition... wish me luck gents. I know these bikes aren't the highest of quality coming from india, especially the earlier year ones, but man I've had some bad luck with this thing. If they don't cover it I'll definitely be looking at an ebay motor to upgrade the head gasket/cam/whatever else people do to make these beefier/faster... hoping for the best though.
I know these have had a lot of head gasket issues looking around the forum/google... anyone else have any big failures like this?
Coolant in the combustion chamber and a little in the oil, slighty bent exhaust valves from touching the piston, piston frozen in the sleeve and the whole bottom end is pretty much toast from the rod cap separating and being tossed around it looks like...
Motor's in pieces at a local dealer waiting for their KTM tech to get back from vacation to see if KTM will cover it or not, so 2-3 weeks of suspense, KTM didn't sound very encouraging in a "we stand behind our products" kind of way when I called their customer support line probably due to it being way out of warranty (but only 7k miles!), really hoping I don't have to shell out $2000+ to fix a 3 year old bike with 7k miles on it, that's probably worth not even $4000 in good condition... wish me luck gents. I know these bikes aren't the highest of quality coming from india, especially the earlier year ones, but man I've had some bad luck with this thing. If they don't cover it I'll definitely be looking at an ebay motor to upgrade the head gasket/cam/whatever else people do to make these beefier/faster... hoping for the best though.
I know these have had a lot of head gasket issues looking around the forum/google... anyone else have any big failures like this?