Yep, flange broke off my front axle nut at last service with dealer. Michael however, was good enough to zip across the road and have a stainless one made up, no cost to me This'll never disintegrate and can be torqued up to the original spec of 40 Nm. Looks shiny all the timev though - compared to rest of bike
) but I may be visiting the dark (orange) side if things keep going the way they are going at BMW.
Who knows Dean, 30Nm will stop the flange breaking off the original as this $20 nut quite apparently can't handle the specified 40Nm. Me, I have a preference in using one that will cope with the original torque specification determined by the engineers designing the bike, not some marketing git in Australia that tells me and the service techs just to use less torque. No fault of the one staff member at BMW NZ who actually gives a shit about owners in NZ, but BMW NZ is well short of its game since the marketing, sales and dealer (what's left of them) administration functions have been shifted to Australia. What's happened since that happened I hear you ask - we get **** all information about any problems with bikes, Motorad in Wellington pulls the plug and takes on Triumph, Yamaha is already sponsoring the Safaris, and now KTM are going to sponsor the 2008 Capital Coast Ride. I have no idea what I'm going to relace the HP2 with (and BTW that's only going to happen when I eventually kill it
and my comment was not directed at him it was my general displeasure of what BMW Aust and NZ have done to the motor bike side here.
The bolt was only a side issue.my general displeasure of what BMW Aust and NZ have done to the motor bike side here.
