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After sanding+filling+sanding it, I've already given this ceiling like 5 or 6 coats of paint but I can't make it look good no matter how hard I try. There is this big sliding glass door that is throwing grazing light into the ceiling and make it look like shit. Without direct sunlight it looks better but it's still visible.

I don't know what else to do. The last coats I made them doing small contiguous squares (like 1x1 meter?) as fast as I could to avoid painting over drying paint, but still there were visible darker areas where the squares merged I guess.

I'm using a roller and flat interior latex paint. What is creating this darker/greyer areas??

Help please, wife's patience is starting to run out

My dealer says to:

1. Postpone break-in service from 500 to 1000 km. They say that at 500 km break-in is still not finished and it's better to do the service at 1000 km to have cleaner oil from there. But my concern is those extra km between 500 and 1000 km, with pretty dirty oil.
2. Do regular services at 5000 km to change oil and oil filter instead of 10000 km. They say that it will be better for the engine and the 10000 km number on the manual is for "marketing purposes and look like top Euro/Japanese brands". On the other hand as counterbalance, skip the 10000 km valve clearance check because: "At that mileage, valves can't be out of tolerance". But my concern is that they simply want me to see there twice as often to pocket more money.

If we believe them, this is not their own idea but something agreed on a national level on my country by all the RE dealers.

What's your opinion? What service intervals do you do? What your dealers say?

Hi there,

I recently tested a 450MT from a dealer, and the experience was pleasant except for the throttle at low load. When I went off gas and wanted to go on again but only a little, the engine was abrupt and impossible to properly regulate.

They told me that in new software updates that has been solved, but I don't know if they are lying to me. Has this been fixed? And to what degree?

Hi there,

I am seriously considering the purchase of an Himalayan 450 and I rented one for a day to fully test it. I really like the bike but I got this issue on curves that I want to share with the community to see if you can help me understand it.

The point is that when I'm leaned into a curve, I feel like the handlebars want to turn more into the direction of the curve, which if you allow it will take lean away and leave the bike more vertical. (If you countersteer away from the curve you gain lean, if you steer into the curve you lose lean)

I was finding myself "fighting" with the handlebar to keep it from closing and trying to keep an stable leaning angle. Which was a weird and distrustful feeling. Like the bike fights back to return to the vertical position and go wide out of the curve. (Even without gas being applied)

I shared that with a few RE local guys but no one shared my experience, so I left confused. Am I the only one? I'm doing something wrong? If it's real, why do this happen and can be avoided?

The rented bike had 20k km and stock tires sizes. I also rode the cf moto 450 mt and didn't feel any of that.