Please respond if you've NOT had a 1200GS/GSA fuel pump controller failure

100,000 units built. 7857 members surely from the number of replies you can extrapolate a figure...government does it all the time :)
 
Name: Ewan McGregor

Bike: 06 GSA

Yardage: 52,000 miles

When I ride: Weather irrelevant

Canned: Never stored as always in use.

Problems: No fuel pump issues.
 
2005 1200GS

Don't ride in the rain, unless I'm on a trip... maybe 10 to 15 wet days total.

16000 miles on the clock...

No fuel pump failure.

Al...
 
12K on an 05 12GS in all depths, and no fuel pump failure.

250 miles on an 08 12GSA and no failure yet :D
 
Well I have to say that I didn't have a failure in 48,000 miles on my first 1200GS so you can count that as a vote. And it took until 42,000 miles on my 1200GSA to get the first failure, so those with low mileages can take some consolation in that. :rolleyes:

However... the hostility I have faced after raising this issue has soured my enthusiasm. I have therefore pulled my findings and will not be progressing the matter. :(

Tim
 
Wapping said:
Now here we see a possible problem in Tim's statistics.

This is three bikes....from one owner....I can only assume that is three positive votes....?
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I have though about this again, waiting patiently at work.

Tim's question only asks for failures. If my second bike, the 1200 GSA had a failure, I would report it on Tim's list. That would appear as a 100% failure.

Of course, my first GS ran fine. I would then report it on the non-failure list. Where it's a 100% success.

Double counting is now creeping in. The reality, in my example, is 50-50, not 100% either way.

ChasMil (Who I know, then sells me his bike). he has reported no failures. I own it for a day and report no failures...my little bit of stats now shows:

One failure, two none failures for me and one non-failure for ChasMil. That's 3-1 'for 'good' or a 1/3 failure rate....

Just shows how difficult statistics are....

....Anyway, enough.....on with the votes, mud-slinging ...it's like a knock-down fight in the Last Chance saloon.
 
Fuel Pump Controller Failure

ram678
05 1200 GS
24,000 Km
Long trips most weekends
All weathers
left standing 2 to 3 weeks sometimes

After all the 'doom and gloom' on this issue I carry a spare but haven't needed it yet touch wood. :)
 
Fuel Pump Controller Failure

No problems so far
2005 GS owned from new
13000 miles
Ridden all year round in all weathers
Not left to stand more than a few days at a time but during winter months generally give battery a boost with an optimate once a week (but that's another story).:)
 
Mar 05 GS, from new
28k
all weathers (except snow)
ridden two or three days per week

Plenty of other bits replaced, but not this one, yet! :nenau
 
Tim Cullis said:
However... the hostility I have faced after raising this issue has soured my enthusiasm. I have therefore pulled my findings and will not be progressing the matter. :(

Tim
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Hostility ?????

Feck me Tim :thedummy

I thought the motorail escapade had toughened you up?

if you think the good natured banter youve received is hostility I doubt you'd have weathered the fight with the corporate sharks, sorry, lawyers BuMW keep in their fishtanks :rolleyes:
 
2004 GS - no problems at all. Ridden daily since new in September 2004 - will be collecting a new one next week -but for no logical reason!
 
Dean Lewis
early 06 GS (bought new in May 07)
14,000 km
monsoon rain and heavey sunshine (Malaysia)
used weekely more when work allows

Touch wood!!!

interestingly over on advrider the put a survey about this point on their web. last time i looked the failure had effected 10% of bikes.

From reading both forums it appears the UK gets much more failures that the US, it also seems not a big issue in OZ, and my dealer has told me he hasn't had a failure in Malaysia (very few GS's sold here so no real statistic from that). UK weather??
 
Please respond if you've NOT....

RogerJ
R1200GS 2005
13,000 kms
All weathers
Regular rider
:thumb2

RogerJ
R1200GS ADV 2007
18,000 kms
All weathers
Regular rider
:thumb2

I do carry a spare fuel pump controller now and an EWS ring antenna. Knock wood!
 
2007 ADV

Build date October 2006 USA spec'

27,000 klms. in all the weather that Thailand has to offer.

Stored outside, no cover.

No failures at all. ( FPC / EWS or otherwise )

Barcelona, the dealer in Bangkok, have said that they have had only a few FPC and EWS failures across the BMW range and they sell quite a few bikes.
 
harry said:
I think it's you who is being positively negative.

Why try to be a smart-arse when someone is trying, I imagine, to gather information which may in the long-run benifit us all?:nenau
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What cock don't get insecure if your reasoning is questioned - if you want to question to gather information, you can't ignore the other side of the question just because it doesn't suit your agenda. Think of how the other side will interpret any findings.

Good on Tim for trying to do doing something about it.
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