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 Yet more ducati crap parts !!!!!!!
Just spent 2 hours have into file the NEW friction plates down by .05mm each tab to fit NEW Ducati supplied friction plates to my New S4 basket, aaaaarrrrgh , I am getting very Peeed off with poor quality or wrong sized Ducati replacement parts recently, seems a trend , careless manufacturing or conscious drop in quality to increase profits ????
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Are you sure they were the correct parts?  If they were, defective machining of >.05mm is CRAZY terrible.

That is pretty bad.  They must be outsourcing to Termignoni's quality control staff.  There quality motto seems to be, "If it fit's in the box, ship it!(two months later)"

Are they all Ducati parts?

Did the shop sell you some aftermarket plates that were junk or an aftermarket basket?

I've never heard of anyone having to do anything like that with plates. Something is WAY off with that.  :-\

They are all GENUINE Ducati parts ,sourced from different Ducati dealers   and its not only clutch plates we have had  2 set of new pistons that are wrong size ,shims that were wrong size ,  the Ducati parts came in boxes or packs marked with size of part but the parts inside were different size , we have also had 4 defective New fuel Sensors , 2 New defective O2 Sensors , 2 defective Ducati Performance ECUs and several other items as well.

I am very careful when ordering parts to give exact part numbers ans SIZE and I measure everything at least twice to make sure .
I have spoken to a mechanic at one main dealer and he showed me a big bin of NEW  Ducati genuine parts that were all defective or wrong size that bwere waing to be replaced and he reckoned it was around $60,000 woth of stuff from just 3 months work this was not warranty relates stuff but duds off the shelf !!!!!!!!it was making him paranoid too.

That's pretty crazy. Last year we were the highest selling DP accessory dealer and one of the top OEM and we had very few pieces that were incorrect or defective. Less than 10 that I can think of at the moment, which percentage wise is not much different than all the after market we deal with.

Maybe they send all the good parts to USA and the Crap to UK!!!!????  HA HA HA I still love Ducati and i am sure other manufactures are just as Barmy , for example I am working on a 2003 benelli TNT 1130 and Benelli have sent me the wrong parts 3 times a well ...but the disturbing thing is they cant identify the bike even from the frame , engine , year and model numbers ?????!!!!!!I am begining to believe the bike is a freak!!!!!

+1.

There are, at least, a half dozen different sets of Ducati Dry-Clutch Friction plate sets by part no. Sounds to me that you've got the wrong one.

Agreed. We aren't having those kinds of problems in down in Dallas either.