I have never personally dealt with either Yamaha corporate or a Yamaha dealership.

My understanding, which comes only from reading on the forums, is that your outcome will depend largely on if the dealer "goes to bat" for you, as to dealing with a failure after your warranty period.  My thinking is that the selling dealer might be the best bet.

Going to try one more option, and then see if I can go higher.  Yamaha corp pretty much told me to pound sand and that it is not a negotiation. I should be lucky they offered anything.!  Just floored me.  Cant believe that. I thought they would cover most of the cost, with a small amount being passed to the customer.  Guess thats just not the case!

Hopefully the dealer can get them commit to a little more assistance than what the previous offer was.  Then maybe we can proceed.  The Yamaha tech at their corp said it was nothing that I did.  Basically lot rot....Why am I responsible then.? Just does not make sense to me.!

I think I would try to switch it around on the dealer.  Pay for the $700 for oil and parts and have the dealer pick up the tech / labor cost for both the repair and oil change. After all, he has techs on standby paying their hourly rate anyway.   I can assure you the $1200 is at their standard shop rate, which is probably marked up 50%.  Even offering to cover the $700 in parts, with what their actual discounted dealer cost is and the mark up on their labor rate, there not out anything.

I called the dealership and asked for pictures of the damaged parts and I now have them. Hopefully when Yamaha sees the parts, they will take care of the whole thing....How the heck do I put them on here??? Cant figure out how to shrink them to a usable size.....

i get less than  30 mpg - but its modded heavily and runs like a hot rod...

If I want to upload them to the sight, I usually open them in Paint and resize them. You can then right-click and select "Properties" to check how big they are.

And some people make grandiose claims based off of one experience. I've always owned Yamaha products, from motorcycle to ATV's and dirtbikes, and have never had a single problem working with the authorized dealer I go to for all of my work. In fact, when I was having problems with the charging system on my R6, they actually asked me if I would like them to try and get me a refund for the three batteries the bike ended up frying before I finally took it in. They managed to do so, (which they needed to get approval for from corporate or whatever), and deducted them from the price of the repairs.

Now I guess I don't really know if you're conversing with corporate or an authorized dealer, but my experiences have always been fantastic. And yet my brother had to jump around a while until he found an authorized shop for his Harley that would actually work with him. Everyone has their experiences, and makes large claims based off single, isolated occurrences.

Will I be buying another Yamaha? Not a motorcycle, but that's because they're basically giving up on their big bikes.