Dogwiv2dix
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Just a heads up to anyone with a 1200GS.
Had mine 3 weeks now, 1650 miles on the clock, spent the past 2 days playing in Snowdonia amongst the torrential rain and sheep droppings. On the way home, stopped in Kidderminster for fuel, left the petrol station with the "Brake Failure" light still on and NO SERVO braking at all, I still had hydraulics but they are next to useless. Managed to limp into a pub carpark and called BMW Assist at 1130 this morning.
They called me back about 1155 to say that the recovery vehicle would be with me in 60 to 90 minutes. I got a call from the driver of the truck at 1405 (you work it out) over 90 minutes anyway. He was on his way and would be with me in 25 - 30 minutes. So at 1505 he turned up with bike trailer, loaded "Molly" and off we went to Clarks in Birmingham.
Whilst unloading the bike I noticed the brake light was stuck on, mentioned this to dealer and 10 minutes later, mechanic returns keys and says "All Done".
What had happened apparently was that some muck had caused the brake light switch on the foot brake to stick, the CAN-BUS system sensed a problem and shut down the Servo's, hence no braking.
If the Servo had failed or indeed the ABS pump, the CAN-BUS would have disabled engine starting too, apparently, so why, I ask did it not shut down the engine as well as the Servo's in this case.
Can anyone enlighten me ??
Got home safely in the end, very wet and very p*ssed off at such a stooopid thing causing me to get home 5 hours late in the pouring rain.
Had mine 3 weeks now, 1650 miles on the clock, spent the past 2 days playing in Snowdonia amongst the torrential rain and sheep droppings. On the way home, stopped in Kidderminster for fuel, left the petrol station with the "Brake Failure" light still on and NO SERVO braking at all, I still had hydraulics but they are next to useless. Managed to limp into a pub carpark and called BMW Assist at 1130 this morning.
They called me back about 1155 to say that the recovery vehicle would be with me in 60 to 90 minutes. I got a call from the driver of the truck at 1405 (you work it out) over 90 minutes anyway. He was on his way and would be with me in 25 - 30 minutes. So at 1505 he turned up with bike trailer, loaded "Molly" and off we went to Clarks in Birmingham.
Whilst unloading the bike I noticed the brake light was stuck on, mentioned this to dealer and 10 minutes later, mechanic returns keys and says "All Done".
What had happened apparently was that some muck had caused the brake light switch on the foot brake to stick, the CAN-BUS system sensed a problem and shut down the Servo's, hence no braking.
If the Servo had failed or indeed the ABS pump, the CAN-BUS would have disabled engine starting too, apparently, so why, I ask did it not shut down the engine as well as the Servo's in this case.
Can anyone enlighten me ??
Got home safely in the end, very wet and very p*ssed off at such a stooopid thing causing me to get home 5 hours late in the pouring rain.
) and then got the works manager to look. After a few minutes I was told it might be due to a low battery voltage, so they had it on charge. After that, they hooked it up to the computer which eventually said the servo pump had died... massive amounts of pressure to the rear but none to the front 
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I cancelled BMW Assist and resumed my track activities. 
One to watch I think, especially if the rear lever ever gets knocked. 
