Just as you suspected, the dealer was having none of my claim despite my argument. In fact they replaced the tyre and charged me �35 labour for the pleasure. Obviously I inspected the new tyre for obvious damage and discovered the dealer had fitted a different type!! I pointed this out and the idiot at service reception would have none of my insistence that the tyre was not the specified fitment and did not match the rear.
As it happens the retards at this Vauxhall based dealer also failed to fill the oil correctly putting most of it into the radiator fins, I discovered this during my ride home when the oil sprayed itself from the radiator all over the bike and my legs! I'm going back on Monday armed with the manual to seek out the service manager and complain properly for this shocking treatment,