That is something that should be SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS!I know that if your motor casing shows evidence of crash damage they may not warranty it - couple of people on here had that happen to them.
Nick you get 2 years in total. If you get a new motor after 1 year then unfortunately you still only have one year leftGot directed here from the live stream last night, not got an issue myself was just interested in thread as i'm e8000 system. I'd be devastated if I had to wait anymore than 2 weeks as it's my only bike. So warranty is 2 years on motor, if it gets replaced say after a year do you have a year left or do you get another 2 years just on replaced motor?? Are and will there be any numbers with regards to failure rates?
Hope all you guys get sorted soon.
Yes.... Shimano Ebike UK messaged me to let me know that my motor was back with the LBS. Only when the LBS contact did I know it was a new motor.
But again ... no motors? I'm not buy that. If that WAS the case then why wouldn't they just tell you that? All just hearsay at the moment.
As far as I have experienced and also friends in the club, the motor is NOT the issue. The issue is absolutely SHIT and nonexistent customer service from the place of purchase. If Shimano were the problem then the suppliers would just blame Shimano, but that isn't happening.
It's Wiggle and CRC that need to be called out for their unbelievably poor customer service.
Nick you get 2 years in total. If you get a new motor after 1 year then unfortunately you still only have one year left
That's great .... and that's what I did. However they wouldn't let me take you lbs or my warranty would be invalid. Nonetheless I did and I had the same success as you. Unfortunately others have not been so lucky and had to ship the whole bike to Norn Iron to the warranty centre for CRC.I have had nothing but great service from wiggle regarding warranty.
Starting with a replacement shifter, new dropper post and replacement motor via lbs.
Just had to send pics of damaged item and replacement was in the post asap.
Motor wise I tried everything they advised to no avail and then took to lbs, aprox 2wks later got bike back with a new motor.
I was charged £85 but wiggle reimbursed me no problem.
I hope it goes way beyond that Nick! ?Thanks David, hope mine goes the distance then?
My Focus Jam squared 2018 started giving intermittent error msgs at about 4 or 5 months old, at about 7 months I got the terminal combination of msgs you describe.
Took it back to my lbs where I bought it but Madison started to give him the run around, but after couple of weeks he took a new motor from a stock bike and fitted it to my frame to get me mobile again.
When I bought my bike I paid £200 over cheapest Internet price so I would get good local support, feeling vindicated now.
Compare Madison/Shimano with Bosch: my mate has a 3 year old Scott with a bosch motor which stopped working, he took to local bosch bike shop (not where he bought it) who sent motor back to Bosch and they supplied a new motor foc, despite it being a year out of warranty!
You have a fezzari wire peak correct? Hows fezzari been with handling this issue? wire peak has been on my short list.
Correct, it's the Fezzari. We shall see how they get this fixed. I just got the authorization from Shimano support to have the motor warrantied late yesterday evening.
Shimano wanted to use my laptop connection via PCE1 to the DU8000 device. Very sharp tech did some debugging and declared it warranteeable.
Man count me in as officially scared to buy an ebike..just so many issues I've been reading about lately.. I imagine it's going to get worse before it gets better with the amount of bikes that are coming to market.
Yeah, if the motor dies the bike is pretty much a boat anchor. With that said, I will persist until it's fixed and will still love riding it. An eMTB took the place of my plated 2T dirtbike. It has a motor, keeps me in shape and can go in so many more places than the dirtbike. The best thing? I will never get ejected and hit the dirt going 50mph ever again!!! (20mph - yes, 50mph - no way)
Interesting thread Chaps. I'm also the owner of a Vitus E Sommet, for 18 months it's been a great bike.
But recently I've been experiencing a problem that seems to becoming a common issue with the STEPS motor, which is understandable since it's new technology that will improve with time and development, but could damage the reputation of the motor if it is not dealt with correctly.
In my case my motor suddenly, and for no apparent reason went into E010 error mode and would not run at all. Shimano STEPS fault code reference recommends taking the bike to a STEPS service center for diagnostics. I did this and the Service center did firmware up grades and all the recommended checks and tests, still no joy they had to charge me £125 for the work, and told me that the motor needed replacing, and that it would have to go to Madison cycles.
I asked them to contact Madison on my behalf, but since I'd purchased my bike through Chain Reaction Cycles they advised me to go through them. Here starts the major issue, dealing with CRC has been a constant struggle, I've had to send the whole bike back to Ireland for them to initiate the motor replacement with Madison. This whole process until now has taken 75 days, and my bike is still not returned to me yet.
On a positive note Madison have now supplied CRC with replacement motor for me, which has been fitted and the bike will eventually be returned. But the time frame could have been greatly reduced if the service center could have dropped the motor and had it exchanged with Madison directly, probably in less than 2 weeks.
Currently I have only 4 months remaining of the original warranty for the bike, and subsequently 4 months warranty on the new motor also.
I feel that Madison should offer me a separate warranty period on the new replacement motor. I now have lost confidence and faith in the STEPS motor and feel that maybe in a few months time I'll be left with an expensive bike that will be useless with a failed motor.
So not only am I £125 out of pocket, and 75 days throughout of summer without my bike, I'm also owner of an EMTB with a motor that cannot be repaired or replaced by one of the biggest online cycling retailers worldwide, and by the UK distributor for Shimano.
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Holy smokes!! 75 days? That’s insane!!
That's how long I have been told my Focus will be, and that's purchased through a local bike shop.
Damn that’s rough.. I’m looking at whyte with new Bosch.. maybe I should wait 6 months and see if new Bosch proves reliable! They should definitely prorate your warranty, at very least.
Thats exactly where I'm at, except its a non plated ktm 350..which honestly Ill probably just keep because resale sucks on it and its hard to let go of the idea of riding, although its less and less these days.
But the reliability has got to be there.. if I drop 6k on a bike and engine has to be replaced in a year... thats a tough one to swallow.
Kind of interesting that bike makers outside of specialized/giant? who use off the shelf motors can just tell you to deal with manufacturer. They build the bike and sell it to you take the profit and then you have to deal with shimano? I guess it's the same with forks etc but this is in new league. makes sense why so many are using shimano.. once they sell the bike its on the customer to deal with problems.
Anyway good luck.. from your pictures it doesn't seem like you are riding super demanding terrain.. no high mountains? Florida? To only make it a year and a 1000 miles is really pathetic. I mean thats beyond not being reliable thats ridiculous.
I don't think any of the current motors are particularly reliable, just have to hope the manufacturer you choose can cope with warranty issues better than Shimano seem able to do.
I had a Giant eMTB for 1 week before I got the Fezzari. The bike fired up in the LBS and the next day at home it was dead, fatal error displayed on bar computer. The LBS had me call Giant Customer Service to debug the bike, they had no clue. That made buying an Internet based bike much easier...
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