More corrosion issues .....

Hoseman said:
Can't see how this protects protects, rotation of the rear wheel throws water & road detritus shot blasting the the cross member from the rear. I use a cut piece of coolant pipe on the cross bar which I simply remove between rides to prevent potential rot setting in under the pipe, and of course liberally coat in acf. So far still as good as new. Not a Gucci farkle but an effective one.
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I'm pretty sure that very few rocks get thrown forward off the wheel. I had one from new on my 05 and had zero corrosion issues on it.

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40K miles, and you can see that it looks fine. The only problem I had was rust on the cheap clamps.

Jim :cool:
 
I bow in your general direction, Jim :beerjug:

My 3 month old LC TE has some mild bubbling on the centre stand bracing bar.
I will wait for it to look like the surface of the moon (about a months time ;-) ) before stripping and respraying it with Hammerite.

Enjoy!
BB
 
I never said big bucks for tape but things like crud catchers, centre stand plates Rad guards etc are grossly over priced and that goes for most accessory for these bikes comparing to Jap bikes.
BMW is supposed to be a high end brand and in my opinion is not of a great quality, e.g switch gear, engine corrosion, not to mention easy parts to steal off it.
Why do we need to pay extra to protect this bike when you have to pay a lot for it in the first place.
Some folk on here must have money to burn.
 
fazerbill said:
I never said big bucks for tape but things like crud catchers, centre stand plates Rad guards etc are grossly over priced and that goes for most accessory for these bikes comparing to Jap bikes.
BMW is supposed to be a high end brand and in my opinion is not of a great quality, e.g switch gear, engine corrosion, not to mention easy parts to steal off it.
Why do we need to pay extra to protect this bike when you have to pay a lot for it in the first place.
Some folk on here must have money to burn.
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Bla bla bla, I paid a lot for a bike that is not perfect in my opinion. How many times I heard this. If your bike is not perfect, it is because you didn't pay enough. You want perfect, build your own, or expect to pay a LOT more, because everyone's opinion of perfect is different!:blagblah

Jim :cool:
 
It sometimes seems that for some people on here, BMW is like a religion: don't blaspheme! The bloke has made a fair criticism - if it's easy to prevent rust on a vulnerable part, why don't BMW do it in the factory?
 
FFS:blast

Its a centre stand with a bit of rust on it and not really a lot to be fair, lifes too short surely?
 
Centre stand gets blasted with road grit so it will rust. Side stand gets boot scuffed.
Get it zinc electroplated and painted or powder coated with a high zinc undercoated and passivate primer. Then protect the stone chip zones with helicopter tape.
The engine front cover on the Hexhead doesn't suffer from gravel chips but it certainly does suffer with corrosion at bolt holes. The crud catcher hides the real cause while protecting something that doesn't happen.
Actually I lie - the catcher is worth having if the bike has no fender extender and Remus headers. The standard cross tube normally stops all the stone chips.
 
Malcvtr said:
It sometimes seems that for some people on here, BMW is like a religion: don't blaspheme! The bloke has made a fair criticism - if it's easy to prevent rust on a vulnerable part, why don't BMW do it in the factory?
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Unless the stand was finished with some sort of super hard coating then it will eventually succumb because of its location on the bike - I would prefer BMW to spend a little more on ensuring that other areas of the bike had more resilient paintwork.

One welcome improvement that BMW seemed to have made though is to the finish on the front engine cover of the LC, mine has survived remarkably well over 22,000 miles with just a regular coating of FS365, no signs of corrosion at all :)
 
Malcvtr said:
It sometimes seems that for some people on here, BMW is like a religion: don't blaspheme! The bloke has made a fair criticism - if it's easy to prevent rust on a vulnerable part, why don't BMW do it in the factory?
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And some people would bitch if the bike was perfect, claiming it had no character. People just like to complain I think.

Jim :cool:
 
Engineer said:
One welcome improvement that BMW seemed to have made though is to the finish on the front engine cover of the LC, mine has survived remarkably well over 22,000 miles with just a regular coating of FS365, no signs of corrosion at all :)
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My not painted very well MkII hexhead lasted 3 years and 35,000 miles and lots of care from the owner before the front cover started to bubble. All during that time the bike had no crud catcher or fender extender. Even then the rot started from the belt cover bottom screw. The lifting paint bubble was as bad if not worse under the cover as it was outside. The next area was the two bottom cover screws. The central area was unmarked.
F365 or ACF-50 would never get to the dissimilar metal contacts. But it would have had a much better chance if BMW had used a marine grade thread compound on all engine screws/bolts.
I fitted a fender extender but it made zero difference because stone chips never were the problem. Eventually I paid £50 for a paint strip and powder coat.
 
My centre stand was replaced under warrantee,for slight corrosion.
I mentioned it when booking in for its service,when picking bike up it had a new stand .
 
BMMIKE,

Who's make of engine bars are those that you have fitted....BMW?
 
ossa eck said:
My centre stand was replaced under warrantee,for slight corrosion.
I mentioned it when booking in for its service,when picking bike up it had a new stand

Apparently the old stand was sent back to BMW where it was refitted to a bike destined for some poor sod in Nottinghamshire ;).
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Fixed it for yer!
 
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