My V4 Rally (referred to in post #13 above) came with the balance of the Manufacturer warranty. In my case a tad over 2.5 years. No conditions other than those applying to any Ducati under warranty.
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Mechanical is covered under warranty in the same way any others are.
Bahnstormers used to take all of them from there however now ORS deal with the auction directly on behalf of BMW UK.
They're a split of BMW UK Ltd and BMW(gb) Ltd on the logbooks.
I’m guessing it’s a closed auction and not open to Joe Public?
Don’t see why an ORS bike would be any different
“All off road skills bikes have a marker for review placed in the warranty system. This is not removing warranty from the motorcycle but drawing our attention to if the fault is a manufacturing defect or the cause of the fault if related to the usage of the motorcycle”
The quote from the Brighton advert on Autotrader suggests to me that if the fault isn’t a manufacturing defect they may not cover it.
Have to be a business to register on the auction platform they use
Again - NOT ALL ex-ORS get a marker. It depends on the usage they had and by whom.
Which part of this suggests in any way that BMW may not honour the warranty on an ORS bike? Reads to me like they just want to know whether ORS bikes lead to more warranty claims or not.
Whether one would choose to buy an ORS bike, or any other, from whatever Chandlers are calling themselves these days is a different matter...
Buying a bike that has a hard life is fine as long as you have your eyes open to the fact. Personally, having ridden an ORS bike on several courses there and having seen how others ride them, I wouldn’t buy one. You pays your money and takes your chance.
They’re better maintained than 99% of all other bikes.
Anything they need, they get straight away and done by one of BMW’s master techs in house.
The only “issue” here is how much of a mark up certain dealers and others are trying to put on them because they think people will think they’re a “special” bike.
It’s the same dilemma as when the army used to offload used Landrovers.
They would have excellent service histories (some crazy stuff, like gearboxes being replaced just weeks before sale, just because the service schedule said so).
However they had very often been driven by lots of inexperienced drivers, and very few with either mechanical sympathy or care for the vehicle.
Your choice…
They would have excellent service histories (some crazy stuff, like gearboxes being replaced just weeks before sale, just because the service schedule said so).
However they had very often been driven by lots of inexperienced drivers, and very few with either mechanical sympathy or care for the vehicle.
Your choice…
Land Rover used to give the military stuff a 5 year warranty
We once had Defender Wolf come back in for warranty work with the customer complaint of "pulls to the right hand side"
When it was checked over this ex Kosovo vehicle had a big lump of tree jammed into the steering drop arm and a series of holes up the left hand side no doubt caused by machine gun fire
I notice that the Brighton bike has dropped down to £12,495, maybe they’ve been reading the comments on here! Still too pricey for me. I’d quite like a slightly scruffy one to do some of the European Adventure bike trails but it would have to be a lot cheaper. It’s a pity the ORS bikes are specced up with £5k of extras, a basic bike with maybe just the enduro pack added would be ideal. But I guess they might have trouble shifting those as most people want all the toys. My first ORS 1200GS was a 2011 twincam, the only extra it had was heated grips, I don’t think it even had abs!
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