Yamaha 1300 Tourer - Yamaha 1300 Tourer Fansite

For sometime now myself and another member, paulinokc, have been trying to keep everyone informed with our trials and tribulations in getting Yamaha to take notice of the clunk issue. Today I succeeded!!!! Met with the regional service rep, listened to him state that he has not heard of any such problems, told him thats BS, heres my key, you ride it then we will talk. After a very short ride his first commit was "OH S**T, THIS AIN'T RIGHT". I told him everything I wanted & expected to be checked, spring tension/load, spacer length, torque of all front end bolts/nuts and (THANKS TO PAULINOKC) the head nut for cross threading.
The head/steering nut was found cross threaded creating approx. a 3/16 inch gap at the upper bracket. This little nut is kinda important since it holds the forks to the frame, whudathunkit. Yamaha is going to replace both upper and lower brackets (trees), all bearing, races & seals, ect. Just over $900.00 in parts alone. I strongly urge everyone who has or have had this TYPE of clunking noise to get their bikes checked asap!!! Oh by the way, ain't no way in hell progressive springs will correct a cross threaded nut!!!
If ya'll go back and look at the "famous clunk poll" you will find that out of 88 votes only 27%, 24 folks, thought this was a serious safty issue & should be fixed by Yamaha. I wonder why. I also got many personal e-mails telling me that I was holding my breath for nothing, did not know what I was talking about and that progressive springs was the one and only fix.
NOTE: I honestly feel that there is several different causes for this clunking noise and in some cases the progressive springs is the correct fix. My case was different. We all need to be careful with the info shared on this forum. Lets make sure we have all our ducks in a row & properly spaced so we don't get duck do on their bills.
The Yamaha rep will write a report of his findings & submit it to his boss,who inturn will pass it on up the line. At some future time there will at least be a service bulletin issued.
Just in case I've p***ed someone off I take full responsibility for all the above.