1 month old, 1 Thousand miles, 1 Clutch Meltdown.......

Dont let them put a new engine in.. at 1x month old and a 1k mls you want the bike replacing with new. Your bike is a lemon. New bike..incist or get legal. It should be normal practice to replace your machine with a catastrophic fault. Bmw should be glad the fault didnt kill you. Remind them of that.
goodluck but you shouldnt need it really.
 
madmartin said:
Dont let them put a new engine in.. at 1x month old and a 1k mls you want the bike replacing with new. Your bike is a lemon. New bike..incist or get legal. It should be normal practice to replace your machine with a catastrophic fault. Bmw should be glad the fault didnt kill you. Remind them of that.
goodluck but you shouldnt need it really.
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Agreed - I got the full new retail value of mine against any new BMW and mine only had a minor issue with the finish on the engine ;) By comparison mine was almost 6 months old and had done about 1,200 miles.
 
If it was mine it would be a case of sorry this is not of merchantable quality, I require a full refund or a new replacement machine ................... end of story
 
I hear complaints about a workshop built bike to a factory bike. It doesn't seem to me the factory is doing great work!
I agree get a new bike from them. To add though there is probably more technical skills needed to do the valve clearances than replace an engine. It's a few bolts and electrical connectors. If your that scared of them doing this then never go near a dealer to get anything done and do everything yourself!

Not aimed at the OP by the way.
 
Marki_GSA said:
I hear complaints about a workshop built bike to a factory bike. It doesn't seem to me the factory is doing great work!
I agree get a new bike from them. To add though there is probably more technical skills needed to do the valve clearances than replace an engine. It's a few bolts and electrical connectors. If your that scared of them doing this then never go near a dealer to get anything done and do everything yourself!

Not aimed at the OP by the way.
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Think i would much rather carry out a valve check/adjustment than swap an engine out. Theres a fair bit more to it than a few b olts n wires.
 
Marki_GSA said:
To add though there is probably more technical skills needed to do the valve clearances than replace an engine. It's a few bolts and electrical connectors.
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I asked the same replace my porous casing, the bike does not need a new engine and whom is to say a new engine ain't riddled with problems and later on corrosion, where's my original engine is perfect apart from the casing.

I suppose it all comes down to how much BMW pay for the engines and there tech's having the ability to rebuild one .

:(
 
There really isn't. The engine will come complete, sealed and ready to simply bolt in and connect up. It's far from rocket science. If it was an engine rebuild I could understand the concern.

I would expect a 2nd or 3rd year apprentice to be able to do an engine swap. It isn't even like the old bikes where they had to be split in two.
 
I was in a dealers last week where an engine swap was being done on a 2013 gs, it is not that simple , the bike ends up being stripped down to a headstock , forks and front wheel and from there it is rebuilt, dealer reckons two and a half days minimum to be done properly.
Some dealers are great, other dealers I would not trust to inflate tyres correctly never mind fully rebuild a brand new bike ie a local dealer who sent out a demo bike with 15psi in its front tyre


Marki_GSA said:
There really isn't. The engine will come complete, sealed and ready to simply bolt in and connect up. It's far from rocket science. If it was an engine rebuild I could understand the concern.

I would expect a 2nd or 3rd year apprentice to be able to do an engine swap. It isn't even like the old bikes where they had to be split in two.
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Marki_GSA said:
There really isn't. The engine will come complete, sealed and ready to simply bolt in and connect up. It's far from rocket science. If it was an engine rebuild I could understand the concern.

I would expect a 2nd or 3rd year apprentice to be able to do an engine swap. It isn't even like the old bikes where they had to be split in two.
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You"ve done one then?
 
All very sad.

I haven't yet ridden the GSA LC but I know I shall soon. At the moment I'm very happy with my Twin-Cam Triple Black, I've been to France three times on her this year and there's no problem with the bike but the rider is a different thing. I think I shall have to risk a track day and the offroad course to arrest an obvious decline in my riding skills :-)

Still I keep the rubber side down and enjoy the bike which is what matters......

If your dealer is good you'll be fine getting this sorted, I am surprised that they have not offered to replace the bike and that is what I would be after (without question)

Good luck and thanks for posting.
 
My 2013LC (8.5k miles) had a new engine and final drive two weeks ago due to corrosion issues, plus new LHS switch gear and some of the associated wiring. It took the dealers 3 days to complete this work as they hadn't done the whole engine change before. I must say that the new engine seems smoother and the gear change seems better, but I'm running this new engine in currently and it may all be in my mind. Top service all round though.
 
So it was yours, don't think it is a case of not having done one, just a large amount of work involved in doing it properly

Dr_JLo said:
My 2013LC (8.5k miles) had a new engine and final drive two weeks ago due to corrosion issues, plus new LHS switch gear and some of the associated wiring. It took the dealers 3 days to complete this work as they hadn't done the whole engine change before. I must say that the new engine seems smoother and the gear change seems better, but I'm running this new engine in currently and it may all be in my mind. Top service all round though.
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My bike had a new engine, gearbox and clutch at 9000 miles. At 18000 miles it's OK and changes gear at request , smoothly, at all revs, without mamby preloading the gear lever.

So BMW can sort it......but I'm not sure they can do it on every bike!
 
roundincircles said:
My bike had a new engine, gearbox and clutch at 9000 miles. At 18000 miles it's OK and changes gear at request , smoothly, at all revs, without mamby preloading the gear lever.

So BMW can sort it......but I'm not sure they can do it on every bike!
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I shall see if my new gearbox will make a difference...
 
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