As a Dominar UG400 owner, I was having flashbacks to my ownership of Duke 390, jeez I thought mine one was a lemon but oh boy @ZZr-Pilot got god damn whole middle east worth of issues.



I fail to understand this fanboy mindset, company's do not care about you as an individual, they always look at their bottom line. I care about my pocket, and being a fanboy of anything is the worst thing I can do to my wallet.
As for your experience I wont try to undermine it, but your Dominar seemed to have developed every problem that both KTM and Dominar seems to suffer from.

Leaking Forks-Check
Leaking fuel tank-Check
Leaking Radiator-Check
Instrument cluster fuckup- Check
TPS issues- Check

My Duke 390 had some additional issues such as electrical leakage, speedometer showing "0' as speed, rear shock leaking with in 10k kms, front axel ceasing and countless other issues. And did I learn my lesson never to buy another KTM...NO I went and bought Duke 690R and now Dominar which is based on Duke 390. 690 brought its own set of issues but still less than that of 390. Now my 390 is parked at my office, engine needing a complete rebuilding. replacement of wiring and rear wheel. The number plate is 4 times more expensive than that bike. I dont know what the heck I am going to do with it, I can get more money by selling it as scrap than as a whole.


Dominar is essentially Duke390 with a slightly detuned engine and different steel chassis, rest of components are all the same. Dukes had notoriously mushy rear brakes, so does Dominar, I am not even sure if replacing rear master cylinder would improve situation, I rarely use rear braking as my primary but mostly as an aid to front breaking and shifting my weight to font provides better stopping power than relying only on rear.


Do you guys do electrical work as well, I need to install relay for USB power outlet and also route GPS unit power to the battery. If so I will drop by one of these days.

I hate the dual exhaust, it makes single sound even worse. But I am unable to see any good after market full exhaust system for Dominar400, so for now I am stuck with the stock one. Its not like I care about the sound that much as when I am riding I wear ear protection so the ugly clanking sound of a single doesnt disturb me that much but installing a nice sounding exhaust would be nice.


My experience with Eang Chun was slightly better, the bike was prepped and ready the mechanic explained few things to me which I really didnt pay attention to, the sales person was decent to thank me for the purchase and told me to contact him if there are any issues which I knew was nothing but empty talk but still. And yes the bike had so little fuel that I barely made it to the Shell Petrol Station just a km away from their showroom, but that is ok.
My bike is serviced at their shop, I always bring my own oil, the mechanic initially said that they will charge me for the service but at the end he said no need. For all subsequent services I purchase oil filter from them, so no service charges.
They really dont know ABC of Dominar bikes, I usually change my oil well before recommended 5k, the issue is you can not reset the service reminder unless your clock is 400km from required service or passed the recommended 5k interval between services. They couldnt reset the service reminder and told me to go to Subang Service Center, after a bit of reading I figured it out myself.


[GS Cycle actually bought that one from you for 9k, I find it very hard to believe because those folks offered 12k to a friend of mine selling BMW f800 just around MCO time. You also confirmed another suspicion of mine about GS Cycles, they cant inspect bikes for shit. A year or two back I went to purchase a bike with them, the price seemed decent bike had low mileage. Once I started physical inspection found issue after issue, but Crème de la crème of all issues there was a wasp nest smack under the seat where the rear forks meets the suspension. I turned the bike on, and every time I would rev the engine up all lights on instrument cluster would light up and bike would turn off. Now I knew the issue, as few of my friends did face same issue in that model, so as they were scrambling to find the issue I told them to check rectifier and right in front of me they put a label on it "Rosak" and moved on. To this day that bike is still at that show room. I lost all faith in their ability to sell you a bike that is properly inspected.

Sorry I went on a tangent there but it was something your story reminded me of. Dude I went through all your posts, and oh boy owning that Dominar was painful. You still showed a lot of patience with Dominar Service center folks, I went there once and I never want to go there again. You went through an ordeal while owning that bike.

REASON FOR EDIT:

Had a chat with Jay, for now concerns were addressed.

This post has been edited by a-y: Mar 6 2024, 12:06 PM