I just spoke to "Jim" at Yamaha customer service and he told me that bag liners DO NOT and have never came with the FJR and that they are only offered as an accessory.
This is obviously incorrect. :glare:
He just said that he is sorry, but that is their policy and if an individual dealer decides to include the bag liners, that is their option.
Needless to say, I'm pissed off about the whole situation. :angry2: :angry2: :angry2:
Well.... he is likely just looking at the web pages, and in fact, there is no mention anywhere on Yamaha's web pages for the FJR that the bag liners are included with the bike.
For either the 2008 or the 2007 model.
However...... "Jim" at Yamaha Customer Service is as ****** up as a soup sandwich here. And your dealer is a thief, apparently.
The bag liners ARE INCLUDED WITH THE HARD BAGS, and have been every year the bike has been sold here in the USA. Canadians get boned out of the deal because... well... they're Canadian.
(j/k, my Canuk 'bros!)
I have assembled throngs of FJR's over the years at Sunnyside/Desert Valley Powersports, and every year, including this year, WITHOUT FAIL, the bag liners are included inside the hard bags. Strangely, as they come out of the box, both bag liners are stashed in ONE hard bag - typically, the right hard bag (though not always). More than once, a customer will come pick up their new FJR, ride it home, open up the left hard bag, see no liners, and call the store back up to ask about them. They are told to "look in the other hard bag". 'Lo and behold, both bag liners are in the *other* hard bag they didn't check, still in their plastic wrapper.
So what's going on here? Could be any number of things. Most likely, the dealer you bought the bike from, (or rather, the tech assembling the bike, or whatever) took them out of the hard bag for whatever reason.
You were supposed to have received them.
You got boned.
"Jim" at Yammy Customer Service is certainly not aiding your cause here by posting mis-information. I really get discouraged when I read stories like this, because all it does is demonstrate ineptitude (or, more likely, poor/insufficient training) by Cypress. Which is never a good thing.