EVO brake controller failure

[HeatedGrips]

The unit controlling the ABS on my 10,000-mile 2003 GS has failed, as indicated by the warning lights coming on.

I was given the bike as a brand-new replacement last year when my original new bike broke down with the same problem after just 40 miles and no spares were available in this country.

Anyone else had problems with this unit? The fact that BMW had 15 in stock in the UK this time seems to indicate a continuing need for replacements.

Obviously the bike is being fixed under warranty and my dealer, Wollaston in Northampton, has been brilliant, but I'm worried over possible long-term implications of replacing an expensive bit of kit.

 

[skywalker]

You'll be requiring the extended warranty then sir won't you?

 

[stephenenglish]

My 03 ADV had this problem 6 weeks ago & I was bullshited around by my dealer.

The dealer claimed "due to poor brake setup, but now fixed"

Within a few miles of the dealer the problem came back.

Returned to dealer and was told "No replacement parts in UK or Germany.

I waited 3 weeks for a replacement parts

I have been following a few reports of people with same problem.

Many items on my bike have been replaced due to poor quality. I'm not happy in general with BMW and service.

I will sell the bike before extending the warranty

Best Stephen

 

[HeatedGrips]

Sorry to hear about your bike Stephen. Who's your dealer, they sound terrible?

I won't be taking out the extended warranty, I did that on my last bike and it wasn't worth the paper they printed it on.

 

[Fanum]

is it definately the control unit rather than just a filament gone in the brake bulb?

(it switches over to the other filament so at first glance it looks ok........but it does cause the abs light to come on and stay on.....)

 

[DavidHolmes]

I had a front ABS sensor fail whilst my bike was in the workshop having the clutch replaced (under warranty). This is ride the bike in with a knackered clutch - pick it up days later and find the warning lights wont go out.

What a coincidence. The sensor had been fine on the test run done by the dealer 15mins before I rode it away. A story that later changed to the lights were on when we first received it.

The dealers response was quite simple, if I had taken out an extended warranty then the £120 cost would have been covered. And this is true. But the grands worth of subsequent failures that year werent covered by the warranty, so all I can suggest is that repeated failure of this item is probably the least of your long term worries.

 

[MikeP]

is it definately the control unit rather than just a filament gone in the brake bulb?

(it switches over to the other filament so at first glance it looks ok........but it does cause the abs light to come on and stay on.....)

After reading this post when it was first posted, today my warning light came on! Got home and checked the stop/tail light reflected in a window, all working fine. Remembered the bit in the handbook about the tail light system, took out the bulb and checked it with a circuit tester - buggered but still illuminated! How the hell do they do that? Anyway, new bulb - no warning light!