broke down last night

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Morninf after a great day of riding around yesterday I stopped off at a friend. About 22h00 I departed Basingstoke and my petrol reading said 191 miles (left) but the gauge was showing one bar. As i was riding the gauge went to 150 miles 96mile until it showed 56 miles (this all during a 20 min ride home). Eventually the bike jecked and it stopped and then started to loose power and that was it. Tried to restart nothing, aferter trying three more time the battery appeared to also now suffer? anyway got collected at 00h00 bike home. The fuel light never came on at anytime! GSA 1200 2010 model

Will put some fuel in her but will still call on the BMW tech.

Anyone else had this problem?:confused:
 
Intruderwithin said:
Morninf after a great day of riding around yesterday I stopped off at a friend. About 22h00 I departed Basingstoke and my petrol reading said 191 miles (left) but the gauge was showing one bar. As i was riding the gauge went to 150 miles 96mile until it showed 56 miles (this all during a 20 min ride home). Eventually the bike jecked and it stopped and then started to loose power and that was it. Tried to restart nothing, aferter trying three more time the battery appeared to also now suffer? anyway got collected at 00h00 bike home. The fuel light never came on at anytime! GSA 1200 2010 model

Will put some fuel in her but will still call on the BMW tech.

Anyone else had this problem?:confused:
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Running out of fuel, use the trip................always works best:D
 
You must have had an idea about the milleage you'd done:blast

Shake the bike from side to side and front to back then start it:D

That will get enough fuel into it to start it:thumb and therefore rule out anything
else.
 
I always use the trip meter aswell as carrying a spare can of fuel just in case!

I've helped out a few bikes that have ran out of fuel(non of them were BMWs though)

FP.:thumb
 
I had a similar problem and ever since I always take my fuel level based on the trip which I reset when I fill up. Doing 75 miles per day + I need to know I'm going to make it. Its working out to be damn accurate.

One "trick" a dealer told me is if it happens, lay the bike down on its right hand side then pick it back up. :eek: It'll give you about another 10 miles of fuel. The thing is if I lay my GSA down, I'll never get the bugger up!! So either way I'm still stuffed. :blast
 
springonion said:
One "trick" a dealer told me is if it happens, lay the bike down on its right hand side then pick it back up. :eek: It'll give you about another 10 miles of fuel. The thing is if I lay my GSA down, I'll never get the bugger up!! So either way I'm still stuffed. :blast
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I would have thought left hand side as that's where the fuel pump is and the fuel pipes go from and to the tank? Willing to stad corrected though........
 
HondaMan said:
I would have thought left hand side as that's where the fuel pump is and the fuel pipes go from and to the tank? Willing to stad corrected though........
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You could be right - just repeating what the dealer told me. Something to do with the design at the bottom of the tank or something but I don't fancy trying it. I'll just keep it topped up instead.
:beerjug:
 
I hear the fuel pump relies on being immersed in fuel "most" of the time for cooling, and constantly riding around low on fuel can cause premature pump failure, could be a load of Bo***cks of course :rolleyes:
 
Greg Masters said:
If you put fuel in and it starts, why call BMW?

:nenau

Greg
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Because he flattened the battery trying to start it.

It's a 1200 isn't it, when it doesn't go you call BMW. They cost a lot of money, BMW have to mend it, warranty, duty of care, not fit for purpose, liable, cost a lot of money, doesn't go now, call BMW, no fuel gauge, won't start. God help us all :pullface
 
My bike kept stalling recently, similar symptoms to your with 130 miles showing on the 'range' and a few bars on the gauge.

It stalled on the motorway, restarted at the hard shoulder and I then went directly to a nearby service station. I only got 23 litres in a 33litre tank, hence I put the problem down to bad quality fuel (a later dealer diagnostic showed a lambda fault), and not running out of fuel.

When you refuelled, how much did the tank take (assuming you brimmed it)?

I am now in the habit of resetting the trip after every refuel, having found the trip button on the instrument panel (which was the clock setting button on my old 2004 model 1200).
 
springonion said:
I had a similar problem and ever since I always take my fuel level based on the trip which I reset when I fill up. Doing 75 miles per day + I need to know I'm going to make it. Its working out to be damn accurate.

One "trick" a dealer told me is if it happens, lay the bike down on its right hand side then pick it back up. :eek: It'll give you about another 10 miles of fuel. The thing is if I lay my GSA down, I'll never get the bugger up!! So either way I'm still stuffed. :blast
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I ran out on the M4 last year, with the computer saying I still had 31 miles:blast
Any way, like I said earlier push the bike up & down on the forks and side to side the best you can. Got me 8 miles to the services:thumb
 
Ok so I added fuel this morning and she started no problem. I must admit I relied too much on the fuel gauge but then again the BMW failed to give me the correct fuel limit plus failed to warn me of low levels!!! for a motorcycle costing over 12K I would have expected the fuel gauge to at least work.

Thanks all for the help (trip counter now used) and BMW will just have to look into it.;)
 
I ran out of petrol on the M25 last Saturday at around 06.00 a.m.. Fuel guage has always been good for me until I fitted a power commander and it got me - showing 38 miles left and conked out.

I laid the bike over on the nearside and got it started for about 10 seconds so that didn't work.

Standing amidst several bottles of piss at -2 degrees C when I should have been in the tunnel wasn't very nice - several BM riders waved and rode on, one young lad very kindly stopped and gave me the number of a local MC dealer, One white van man stopped and kindly offered me a lift to the services (but I didn't fancy leaving the bike) and the police stopped, said hello and drove off - got some petrol and off again - this is the first time ever it's happened to me - large throttle and power commander seems to use a lot of fuel (?).

So, after that lesson, I'm having to re-educate my inner fuel instinct.

Not a good start to the weekend but I don't blame the fuel gauge, should've checked it out after fitting the PC.

Got rear-ended in Bishopsgate yesterday whilst waiting at lights so not a very good week (broken pannier, scratched rocker cover, etc..).
 
I found out the hard way too, came in search of other people having the same problem and found these forums... im still here now ;-)

As for the fuel guage, some tossers on here will say you shouldn't rely on the fuel gauge at all but my feelings are clear, if the fuel gauge is so shit why have they put it on the dam bike !! BMW should have just left it off to stop confusion...and put a reserve on the tank instead nothing worse than finding out the hard way :(

I don't trust the fuel gauge now as mine has gone twice and fixed under warranty (only 4500 miles on the clock too) I set my zumo to 300 miles and it works a treat :rolleyes:
 
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