This'll please Rasher

[Wapping]

Yup, we had a 1200 failure on the two day jaunt.

'58 spec bike, FPC went tits-up.

It was one of the old type, before they made the outer case black.

Fixed in about 40 minutes on the roadside...... using an (old type) second hand one............which worked fine.

Jaunt continued, no great drama.

 

[R17GSR]

Lol had no problem with my 07 FPC, had it changed under recall at 20 k. Now on 52k still no problems.
Ride free
Gary

 

[bod]

The only surprise to me is a 58 bike having a silver FPC, why no re-call?

My 15 minutes if inconvenience can't be that far away now, I'm tooled up and ready to go!

It's not right but there you go!

It wouldn't lead to half a dozen pages of vitriol & hate if it did blow . . which it hasn't . . so why do I mention it?

 

[original_concept]

Not all 58 bikes with sliver FPCs were covered.

No matter, it failed during the warranty period, as did the other one (black).

 

[Rasher]

Not at all pleased, it is a shame these things still occur with such regularity, I thought they were change dlong before '58, mine is an '08 so I am guessing on an old type.

Will fit new one before tour and carry old one as spare, reduces the chances of mid-overtake / fast lane nightmare and having to spend an hour roadside trying to sort it out.

Does nobody agree with me that as this has been a known issue since 2004 a 2008 model should not have had a crap one installed? or at the very least the dealers should have either replaced them anyway, or advised the owner it may be an idea to fit a later one?

Lets not forget these things failing could easily cause a nasty / fatal accident and BMW insisted on using up the old rubbish rahter than spending £20 (or whatever they pay) to make a £10k plus motorcycle safer and more reliable.

 

[cookie]

Does nobody agree with me that as this has been a known issue since 2004 a 2008 model should not have had a crap one installed? or at the very least the dealers should have either replaced them anyway, or advised the owner it may be an idea to fit a later one?

amazingly, i find myself agreeing with you (just on this point).


disagree on the assertion that they still fail regularly though. fairly infrequent these days.
can't remember anyone having theirs fail in the fast lane while overtaking, but i dare say someone has. be a bit like running out of petrol i guess. hardly catastrophic.

 

[richie]

Yup, we had a 1200 failure on the two day jaunt.

'58 spec bike, FPC went tits-up.

It was one of the old type, before they made the outer case black.

Fixed in about 40 minutes on the roadside...... using an (old type) second hand one............which worked fine.

Jaunt continued, no great drama.

And we had a very nice chat whilst it was being changed,,,, how bad....

 

[Pukmeister]

Why not make your silver FPC more reliable by spraying it black ?

 

[bod]

Not at all pleased, it is a shame these things still occur with such regularity, I thought they were change dlong before '58, mine is an '08 so I am guessing on an old type.

Will fit new one before tour and carry old one as spare, reduces the chances of mid-overtake / fast lane nightmare and having to spend an hour roadside trying to sort it out.

Does nobody agree with me that as this has been a known issue since 2004 a 2008 model should not have had a crap one installed? or at the very least the dealers should have either replaced them anyway, or advised the owner it may be an idea to fit a later one?

Lets not forget these things failing could easily cause a nasty / fatal accident and BMW insisted on using up the old rubbish rahter than spending £20 (or whatever they pay) to make a £10k plus motorcycle safer and more reliable.

I think the only thing that grips my shit, is the fact that NOG told me there was a universal re-call of ALL silver FPC's, and as soon as my bike was called in, they would refund me the 70 odd quid I was mugged for the spare!

Needless to say, the goalposts were shuffled around . . and suddenly only batches of silver FPC's needed replacing, including older bikes & newer bikes than mine . . but not mine?

That said, mine is over 5 years old now & still controling away!

Who knows?

 

[grasmith0149]

Why not make your silver FPC more reliable by spraying it black ?