Anyone have engine cut out at high speed on R1200GS Adventurer LC?

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My new 2016 BMW R1200GS Adventurer LC with only 7,000 Kms cut out at high speed and nearly caused a serious situation for me as I had just passed out two cars on a country road.
The bike is with my dealer for nearly three weeks and root cause has not been found. They have given me a loaner in the meantime.
Has anyone on the forum experienced a similar problem, if yes, how was issue fixed?
 
Refuse to take it back unless they can prove the problem, replicate it, and BMW EU give you something in writing to prove the issue was found and fixed.
It is not worth risking your life over, if in any doubt, no matter how small, reject it.
 
I posted last year when mine did it twice, once on the Autobahn and the second on a fast left hander on the Grossglockner ( the latter was a bit of a scare), no faults ever showed up on the computer (never does) and after yet another ecu service update it hasn't done it since
 
oddshapedballs said:
Refuse to take it back unless they can prove the problem, replicate it, and BMW EU give you something in writing to prove the issue was found and fixed.
It is not worth risking your life over, if in any doubt, no matter how small, reject it.
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Sure they could ask you to replicate the problem yourself. JJH
 
Poor fueling ??

Probably would not show as a fault code as they are set to run so lean in the first place
 
JJH said:
Sure they could ask you to replicate the problem yourself. JJH
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I'd be amazed if BMW actually asked you to go back down the road at high speed to replicate the problem of the bike completely failing whilst travelling at speed....really???!!!!!
 
I was just answering oddshapedballs. It's easy to blythly state stuff like refuse to take it back ect. There isn't enough information in the original post to make such comments. Like did it restart what gear what speed on a country road. A country road to me is a R road with a kmh limit of 80. Not high speed surely? Did it restart? Stuff like that is revelant. JJH
 
If its new maybe you caught the kill switch with your glove with it been part of the start button when you restarted it there would be no sign

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Had similar problems with an 800 a few years ago. Never showed up on diagnostics. Never fully explained. Changing the fuel pump and controller eventually cured it.
 
Gave official written Rejection Notification of the bike today to my local dealer in Ireland. I will not be riding it again when problem has not been found. It is too much of a risk for my wife and I. They immediately escalated the Reject Notificationto to UK Technial / Customer Service. Will keep you updated on outcome.
 
JJH said:
I was just answering oddshapedballs. It's easy to blythly state stuff like refuse to take it back ect. There isn't enough information in the original post to make such comments. Like did it restart what gear what speed on a country road. A country road to me is a R road with a kmh limit of 80. Not high speed surely? Did it restart? Stuff like that is revelant. JJH
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Fair point, I was assuming no foul play and the bike just suffered complete failure, and no user error.
 
Not user error on mine, when on the glockner the bike had been performing fine that day , I was on a fast left hander banked over at about 50 mph, rolled throttle open coming out of the bend then abs,esa lights all came on and the engine immediately died. Luckily there was a large run off area (an empty car park) as the bike started to run off wide. Pulled it up level and braked to a halt. Bike immediately restarted.
The previous occasion was sitting at a steady 80 mph on the Autobahn in the middle lane in sixth on a steady throttle and al the dash lights including abs and esa came on and the motor just shut down. Again it restarted first push of the button
As said no problems recorded when the bike was put on diagnostics and in the 9000 miles since it has not recurred
 
My 800 GSA did it a couple of times at low speed can't remember if all warning lights failed but I just pulled in the clutch and hit the starter button and away she went I wouldn't even put my foot down and I never saw it as a problem and put it down to me. (Too high a gear for the speed). Jjh
 
Lean fuel mix with the restrictive CAT will cause occasional engine blow outs...mine did it three times before 2,000 miles.

i removed CAT with Akra headers and added a Dyna tune box and it worked great for the next 32,000 miles with no engine blow outs till i traded it in.

I believe BMW acknowledged the issue when they released the 'blip on down shift' factory remap...just a band-aid IMO.

Avoid cheap gas and try to buy only top tier gas but not Shell....Exxon or Chevron only.
 
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