KTM Camshaft Debacle: Placing Profits over Customer Care: “KTM Failed Camshafts - 790/890 & 901”

Blaming customers for a problem created by bad quality control, flawed designs, flawed construction, flawed manufacturing, errors or glitches in the programming of the electronic controls or similar problems caused by negligence or oversights or mistakes made by the manufacturer at different levels, should be treated as free to fix recall to correct the error or mistake. 

Incredibly even Yamaha goofed the CP2 engine in different ways, but at least they acknowledged it right away and paid for customers repairs as recalls, for those customers who had to have these engines repaired in their Yamaha motorcycles. 

When I was researching the 2020 MT03 before buying one, I had considered getting a KTM Duke 390, but the research said that Yamaha motorcycles had better higher quality longer lasting electronics, better wire harnesses and connectors, better engines that last longer and are also more reliable and more fuel efficient with lower emissions, but also class leading best design smoothest shifting motorcycle manual sequential transmissions and are also easy to perform oil changes on as the most common kind of regular maintenance aside from cleaning the drive chain or refueling or adding compressed air or nitrogen gas to the tires to keep the tire pressure up before riding while the tires are still cold or room temperature. 

The MT03 was less expensive, had better ergonomics, and better overall reviews. The 320.3 cc offset twin engine in the MTO3 was refined many times over in the R3 sport bike used in road racing and track racing events for the 300cc class sport bike races. The MTO3 also got better fuel economy and had a superior emissions control system that makes the exhaust even cleaner with a combination of air entrainment, energy efficient ECU maps, and O2 sensor and 3-way catalytic converter integrated into the blacked out stainless-steel exhaust system. I wrapped the down tubes of the header with ceramic fabric painted black with a special high temperature exhaust paint and secured the ceramic wrap with stainless steel zip-ties. Using the FLIR camera to compare before and after, the ceramic exhaust wrap minimized thermal IR loading of the engines radiator and improved the heating rate of the catalytic converter to make cleaned exhaust emissions even faster after cold start. 

I promote and professionally engaged in device repair, ideologically because I believe that people should be able to repair things they own. That means that when someone buys a vehicle, computer, smartphone or anything, if they pay for it and own it legitimately, then that thing is the persons personal property and they are free to do whatever they want with it, including who they choose to have work on, maintain, fix or repair their things. 

When Apple or Samsung or John Deer install software locks to prevent 3rd party repairs, they are cheating or defrauding owners of these products. Thats not just immoral, its sleazy and evil and extremely excessively greedy. 

There is nothing wrong with a company turning a reasonable profit, but when they engage in immoral activities that harm or hurt their employees or customers to boost profits, that crossing the legal ethical line and become sick evil excessive greed or probably the result of narcissism or arrogance on behalf of the corporate owners or executives who make evil choices that harm the environment with pollutants that are toxic to human health or bad for nature or toxic to ecosystem where our food air and water come from, when they act like this and do things like this they are bad actors just like despots Vladimir Putin or Adolf Hitler. 

Some elite income earners are evil and are guilty of self-worship and self-idolatry, placing increasing profits over the health and wellness of other people, or to justify emitting toxic pollutants because doing it that way is cheaper than doing the cleaner safer process. 

This is why we are still burning coal for energy despite widespread knowledge that coal power pollution emitted widely around the world is the most toxic of all emissions released making electricity or heat in industrial power plants. 

Natural gas for example is radically cleaner burning that coal, and coal can be easily and cheaply gasified into cleaner burning gases, with toxic heavy metals and radioactive metals removed during the gasification processes. 

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