Advice Please

[k12pfc]

Years ago I was talking to a dealer (can't remember who now) about reliability and used bikes. He said that, strangely, previous history often gave no indication about the future on a change of owner. Some bikes which hadn't had a moment's problem start falling apart with the new owner and real dogs have behaved impeccably with subsequent owners (and it wasn't as simple as to how each owner rode and maintained them).

Make of that what you will!

Paul

So true, 2 years ago I traded in a K1200RS for a new K1200s, I got £3500 for it, but I had begged my mate to buy it for this price as it was a bargain, he nearly did, lucky he didn't, a week later SPC sold it, 80 miles later the engine went BANG! totally fu@**k, had to have a new engine, before this the bike had given me not a moments trouble, it had service history etc. Luck of the draw I suppose.

The bike at the start of this thread will probably run trouble free for years, or maybe not. Good luck.

 

[irich]

Thats the truth..

at the other end of the scale there are people so brand loyal that they would carry them on their backs before admitting there is a problem ..
and quite a few in between [voices of moderation ]

There are also a lot of forum members with a vested interest in the product under discussion (and Im talking about product forums in general here, not specifically about this forum)

From what I have read in the last three days on the web, it seems like there has been some serious intermittent final drive bearing issues with the 1150/1200 series.

As this seems to have been dealt with in the honourable way by BMW (ie affected bikes dealt with under warranty but otherwise ignored, no admission of any design issue or liability etc as per modern corporate practice), it is quite difficult to find out what the cause(s) and extent of this was, what models were affected, whether there was a break point in production where bearings & seals were changed, etc etc.

Anywhere where this is all summarised? Any hardy soul tried to thread it all together? Id like a Beemer but Im not buying one if there is the possibility of significant latent design defects. I can live with a dodgy switch but having the gearbox and driveshaft go south (even if only a 1 in 500 probability) is not on.