Wasserhead achilles heel

[OZGSer]

Pictures say it all. And I had to drive home. Love the bike, but it needs radiator guards from factory for an adventure bike

 

[jtb]

Bad luck. Hope you get it fixed quick.

Cheers
Jimmy

 

[dsb79]

First of many I suspect. Unlucky hope it does not cost to much to sort out.

 

[y2blade]

Well...that's a bit shit isn't it.

 

[Delboy777]

First one on the back of a breakdown truck ???

 

[Farmer Palmer]

Unstoppable.............!

 

[Perspicacious]

Welcome to Australia

If you ride in the Summer here, you hit insects. Big ones.

I often ride the Great Alpine Road (yes, we are hot, dry and flat but we have a couple of hills) and in Summer the grasshoppers can be so bad I look like I have been sprayed with vomit. Some nights I have to stop and scrape the filth from my vizor so I can see.

You don't want to cop a grasshopper in the face with your vizor up at any significant speed. It hurts.

Still, a hole in the radiator! I think I'll send radiators guards to my dealer to fit before I pick the bike up in July.

 

[Engineer]

Bad luck, but one in 10,000 bikes sold so far ain't bad.

 

[Beemerman59]

Bad luck, but one in 10,000 bikes sold so far ain't bad.

How do you know that?

 

[Benhur]

Well I have just had the added incentive to pop out to the garage and fit the radiator guards that were sitting on the bench in my shed!

Bad luck, but thank you.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

They should fit plastic ones at the factory, at the very least....

Anyone fitting aftermarket (TT type) guards, have you checked with BMW Motorrad or your dealer to see if you have invalidated the factory BMW warranty?

If you fitted rad guards or even rubber fork boot gaiters to the water cooled F650GS/Dakar etc, BMW would not honour any engine warranty claims, because in their opnion..............airflow and therefore engine cooling had been impeded and compromised

Just worth checking before you fit Rad Guards to your 12GS WC, I would check with BMW - because I think they would advise that you didn't

 

[Engineer]

How do you know that?

They have sold around 10,000 of the new bikes so far - I don't now how many have had holed radiators but this is the first one reported that I have seen.

 

[Engineer]

They should fit plastic ones at the factory, at the very least....

Anyone fitting aftermarket (TT type) guards, have you checked with BMW Motorrad or your dealer to see if you have invalidated the factory BMW warranty?

If you fitted rad guards or even rubber fork boot gaiters to the water cooled F650GS/Dakar etc, BMW would not honour any engine warranty claims, because in their opnion..............airflow and therefore engine cooling had been impeded and compromised

Just worth checking before you fit Rad Guards to your 12GS WC, I would check with BMW - because I think they would advise that you didn't

I don't like the idea of rad guards either - they are bound to restrict airflow to some extent.
I think that you would have to be extremely unlucky to hole a radiator anyway, because a stone flicked up from the front wheel is likely to be stopped by the plastic 'tray' thing at the bottom of the radiators - I suspect that's why it was put there in the first place.

 

[krytengs]

I don't like the idea of rad guards either - they are bound to restrict airflow to some extent.
I think that you would have to be extremely unlucky to hole a radiator anyway, because a stone flicked up from the front wheel is likely to be stopped by the plastic 'tray' thing at the bottom of the radiators - I suspect that's why it was put there in the first place.

I agree that it just bad luck and probably quite rare. I have a naked bike with a big exposed radiator and its never been holed, even though the bike has been peppered with road crap.

 

[JohnnyBoxer]

I don't like the idea of rad guards either - they are bound to restrict airflow to some extent.
I think that you would have to be extremely unlucky to hole a radiator anyway, because a stone flicked up from the front wheel is likely to be stopped by the plastic 'tray' thing at the bottom of the radiators - I suspect that's why it was put there in the first place.

+1

If it needed, BMW would have fitted it

I would imagine any fitting of aftermarket rad covers wouldn't be endorsed by BMW and any subsequent resultant engine problems wouldn't be covered by warranty

 

[patzx12]

A bit of epoxy resin would have got you home

 

[stevie Allen]

bad luck there mate
at least you got picked up

 

[alp]

I agree that it just bad luck and probably quite rare. I have a naked bike with a big exposed radiator and its never been holed, even though the bike has been peppered with road crap.

Agreed, I'm baffled as well. I've had loads of Jap and Italian bikes with big wide and tall rads with nil protection right behind the front wheel and the worst I've suffered is splattered bugs. Little Devon bugs though not Aussie ones!
I just don't get it.

 

[Beemerman59]

They have sold around 10,000 of the new bikes so far - I don't now how many have had holed radiators but this is the first one reported that I have seen.

I thought you meant there had only been one bike on a flatbed.......

 

[Hammam]

They should fit plastic ones at the factory, at the very least....

Anyone fitting aftermarket (TT type) guards, have you checked with BMW Motorrad or your dealer to see if you have invalidated the factory BMW warranty?

If you fitted rad guards or even rubber fork boot gaiters to the water cooled F650GS/Dakar etc, BMW would not honour any engine warranty claims, because in their opnion..............airflow and therefore engine cooling had been impeded and compromised

Just worth checking before you fit Rad Guards to your 12GS WC, I would check with BMW - because I think they would advise that you didn't

What if the dealer installed guards themselves, even before they released the bike to me?