Does BMW hold any bike receipts? Trying to piece together some history for bike

[andeebee]

I bought my bike with no additional paperwork or receipts other than the latest MOT certificate and the service record book with BMW stamps upto 36K.
Is it possible to get a dealer to produce copies of the receipts? Only asking as I have always kept all receipts for any bike I have owned and would like to do the same for this one.
Also do they charge you for checking if the recall work (if any) has been done for the bike?
Never been into a Motorrad dealer for fear of them stripping the shirt off my back as I walk around...

 

[oblertone]

Go in naked and ask; what's the worst that can happen

 

[Sea Dog]

For what it's worth, with BMW cars they can go online see all dealership visits, but only full details of what's been done by their own workshop.

 

[Joe narvey]

I had an oil leak fixed last year as part of this they replaced the clutch. As this was consequential not something I’d asked for I asked for a copy of the workshop job sheet so that I knew the mileage when the clutch was fitted. They gave me me a very full print of everything that had been done.

Was a main dealer.

 

[DrFarkoff]

Yes and No
Yes because the dealership that did the job "Usually" keeps a history against the frame number/registration

No, because The previous owners details are on them and they cannot give them to you due to data protection law

 

[Posh Pete]

Yes and No
Yes because the dealership that did the job "Usually" keeps a history against the frame number/registration

No, because The previous owners details are on them and they cannot give them to you due to data protection law

Wot Jay said! However, if you can obtain details of previous owners by working back from the current V5, you might ask them to help supply copies of receipts with personal details removed?

 

[lmg]

What Jay said is pretty much true however if you ask nicely, the dealer may redact the owners private information - they did for my 2010 R1200GSA.

 

[Bounce]

I did obtain a full recall/service history from a main dealer when I was putting together the 'bike file' ahead of selling it.

It was a PDF document detailing all the work & they e-mailed it to me....no receipts though.

 

[Posh Pete]

What Jay said is pretty much true however if you ask nicely, the dealer may redact the owners private information - they did for my 2010 R1200GSA.

Yep. That could work. A polite request could work. Depends on the number of previous owners and the dealer history (or not) of the bike course

 

[lmg]

Yep. That could work. A polite request could work. Depends on the number of previous owners and the dealer history (or not) of the bike course

My redacted service history dump included everything the previous owner was given and job sheets. I think I had to pay a small fee - small in the sense of covering the postage. I think that was the only good thing a bmw dealer actually did for me.

Sent from somewhere...

 

[squibb34]

I've always found dealers helpful with this info, provided it's not 5 pm on a busy Friday.

Recalls & warranty work often gets omitted from the Service book, sometimes at the owners behest, so if I am looking seriously at a late model BMW, I would start at the dealers - reg/VIN/last owner details - just to check out the history before I firm up the deal.

 

[Bendy toy]

Wot Jay said! However, if you can obtain details of previous owners by working back from the current V5, you might ask them to help supply copies of receipts with personal details removed?

Or they might be happy give the dealer permission to release the service information.

 

[andeebee]

Thanks guys, some positive ideas there. Cheltenham has just opened a mega dealership so I might try my hand in there. Cheers