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Yep. Your complaints are very consistent with the kind of problems I experienced. Suspension, brakes, overheating, burnt foot, things falling off or breaking apart or malfunctioning. Can Am Spyder. All model years. A rolling defect waiting to catch fire from oil leaks, gasoline boiling, and brake fluid boiling. Nothing serious.

If someone calls or writes to say that FABOS settled with the customer... don't take their word for it. I never want the money back. Fabian has been screwing people for years. See Yelp, and Angies list. I want this post to last forever, and ever, and ever, and ever.

Fabian Chaparro can be found on the Texas state plumbers website database. It only took me 20 tries to find his name on that web portal even though I had the exact spelling. His Texas apprentice registry has been delinquent since 2018. He has an incomplete Irving address although online records show him living in Denton. So, you call for a plumber. You think you have a slab leak. You are quoted $200 or more an hour, and what you get are three handymen from FABOS Construction with a jackhammer where the leader is not even a registered plumbing apprentice. He claims he recently passed his plumber test, but clearly that is not true at all. Not according to state records. This is why Fabian failed to install two toilets properly at the same time, and broke the supply line, and bent the supply pipe, then blamed it on the home owner... after collecting a multi-thousand dollar check for a leaky shower valve. No certified plumber would ever do that and flee the residence after taking the check. This is illegal. Fabian will ask you to sign for work they never did. Mostly because they hung around your property all day, taking hours to jackhammer two small holes, fill the holes in, and tile t...ide the fact that nothing was ever found under there. Lucky I have photos and video. The law says FABOS can put a lien on your home once you sign for the work, so state laws make it such that once they begin work, they have you and there is no escape. Even if they jackhammer without a permit. Write them a small check to get them off the property if the situation gets ugly. If you find this post after FABOS starts work, take the estimate and tear it up. Call the city immediately. Call the police. Throw them off of the property. They are not registered, not certified, and probably did not pull a permit to dig. Your leak detect was surely fake. Mine was. Fabos just wanted to start digging to lock me into their labor deal. They will try to sell you a tile job. This is their M.O. Plumbers don't tile. They fix leaks. The state of Texas wont pick up if you call. Email all your photos to the state complaints address. They will get back to you in a week. Maybe. And someone will be assigned to work with you. They will track down the master responsible plumber who has a valid license. The state is slow, but they will catch up with the bad guys.

I had a 2009 RS Spyder. You would think that by 2015 there would be endless knowledge of all the problems these trikes have and how to remedy them. My Spyder suffered from one-month out, one-month in disease. Much of the time, there was little expertise at the dealers on defects, and repairs. I tried every dealership in town for every kind of repair or servicing. The trike never came back the same twice. Always new factory parts. Always a huge bill. Always a defect. I had long discussions about the problems these trikes had. One of the biggest problems is that they were constantly evolving. The exhaust system, was a classic problem as it kept changing because of heat issues. You can tell the designers were trying to solve a heat problem. And, the style team was constantly changing body panels and handlebars, controls, and rims. I tried to ride every type and every model year. Maybe my right foot would stop cooking. No two trikes seemed the same. But one thing was consistent, poor technical support from the manufacturer to the dealer and the owner. If you look at Kawasaki, Honda, and Suzuki, they make bikes well, and the engineers tweak a cable here or a bolt there. Otherwise, the b...dels don't change. Can Am was constantly juggling brake problems, steering problems, heat problems, electronics failures, and the simple fact that the rear tire and wheel bearing lasted as long as your chewing gum. In my experience, for these older models, there is little support because the factory thinking is that you should be riding a new one. Just slap down another 10 grand and get that latest one. Why fix an old one. Trade it in. Right? After two years of constantly upgrading the trike, and 6 thousand dollars later, I gave up. Stuff just kept failing... like the rear brake assembly. I just could not get past the defects and poor support. It was just unsafe to ride when it was warm outside.. or park on a hill. If something broke, you have to take apart half the trike to get to it. Everything was built to look good. Not to function well or be easily serviced. Beware when you own these. The RT touring versions are better, but they still have lots of defects. The new versions without the engine skins are better, but I still read a lot about poor support, poor documentation, and lack of technical skill to remedy defects.