BMW have just increased the basic price of each bike. It's a good way to sell shit loads of SOS's.
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BMW have just increased the basic price of each bike. It's a good way to sell shit loads of SOS's.
^^^Yep, when i specced my bike a few weeks ago the basic price of a GSA TE was £18,400 with the SOS a £305 option.
I`ve just had a look at the configurator now and the basic price has gone up to £18,755 but SOS is included.
So you`re forced to have SOS now and are paying slightly more than if you had included it as an option in the previous basic price.
When i specced mine i did not choose SOS but received a new invoice a few days after paying the deposit including it, and was told i had to have it as all bikes were now being built with it from now on...
I`ve just had a look at the configurator now and the basic price has gone up to £18,755 but SOS is included.
So you`re forced to have SOS now and are paying slightly more than if you had included it as an option in the previous basic price.
When i specced mine i did not choose SOS but received a new invoice a few days after paying the deposit including it, and was told i had to have it as all bikes were now being built with it from now on...
https://www.rideapart.com/news/521914/europe-ecall-sos-emergency-system/
Only time before its mandatory on all new motorcycles. Greet bit of kit that could save your life.
Only time before its mandatory on all new motorcycles. Greet bit of kit that could save your life.
I have it, and am pleased i did. I rode down to my mates villa in St. Tropez. After cracking open a beer, he told me the month before a young lad had come off his bike in the mountains just before dropping down into St. Tropez. He had gone off the road on a corner and down a few meters, He had broke his leg. and couldn't move. He had no signal on his phone. He was eventually found two weeks later. died of dehydration. The SOS would have saved his life.
Not just bikes. There was a lass died in Scotland because the police didn’t log the call properly
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scotland-police-m9-crash-lamara-bell-b1915704.html
Might well have saved her too.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scotland-police-m9-crash-lamara-bell-b1915704.html
Might well have saved her too.
Surely the SOS system works using a built in SIM, would that have worked if his phone didn't?
Who knows? I have 2 phones (1 work, 1 private) on different networks and there are places where I have signal on one and not the other. As far as I am aware the SOS system does work using a built in SIM, always possible that it could have worked in that instance. Having said that are places where I've had the message up on my TFT screen that there is no service, yet my phones are both showing signal. Guess it all comes down to who "covers" what area and how well.
I understand the attraction but when I had it on my MY 2018 GS it regularly used to throw up.the warning square on thr TFT just when I least expected it or wanted it and found it huguely distracting at times so I didn't bother on the latest one. I have what3words on my phone instead, knowing what it's limitations are compared to the SOS system but to me neither are ideal, but are better than nothing. You pays your money.....
Believe the SOS system works across all mobile networks. Same as you can make a 999 call on a mobile that doesn't even have a sim card.
The Sos failure message on TFT screen is another issue, i dont think it is a genuine loss of signal but a software problem. Had it intermittently on my previous 1250 for 2.5 years before it was eventually fixed by latest software update 6 months ago.
It happened a few times in the short period that I had my 1200.
I just thought it was lack of coverage and when I mentioned it to the salesman he said the same so I never thought any more about it.
Something to look out for when I get my new one.
The emergency network is simply all the available networks working together. If your network has no connection, It will bounce off another available network. If there is no signal at all, You will get the dreaded TFT message. I used to get the message now and then, but after an update it stopped.
Just got mine back. Let’s see if it fails at the bottom of our road tomorrow morning, as it has done several times in the past.
If they’re smart, the updated firmware will just wait a bit longer before declaring itself dead.
If they’re smart, the updated firmware will just wait a bit longer before declaring itself dead.
Ah, well, here we differ.
The bloody thing failed as expected at the bottom of the hill (from where you can see France on a clear day), with the “contact a specialist dealer” yellow box. And returning from work, it did the same thing again. I went round the block with the intention of stopping and photographing it, but it didn’t recur.
What does appear different is that I don’t have the yellow triangle and there’s no message on the tft (down twice & 3 or 4 right, after the tyre pressures, iirc)
So presumably they’ve done something. Please could you check your firmware release, I’ll check mine and we’ll see if we both have the latest & greatest, because I suspect they ain’t the same…
Cheers
The bloody thing failed as expected at the bottom of the hill (from where you can see France on a clear day), with the “contact a specialist dealer” yellow box. And returning from work, it did the same thing again. I went round the block with the intention of stopping and photographing it, but it didn’t recur.
What does appear different is that I don’t have the yellow triangle and there’s no message on the tft (down twice & 3 or 4 right, after the tyre pressures, iirc)
So presumably they’ve done something. Please could you check your firmware release, I’ll check mine and we’ll see if we both have the latest & greatest, because I suspect they ain’t the same…
Cheers
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