HELLO. I PURCHASED MY BMW MOTORCYCLE NEW ON 5/3/00 FROM BMW-DUCATIC OF CHARLOTTE, NC . THE REAR END DIFFERENTIAL COMPLETELY FAILED WHILE ENROUTE TO THE DEALERSHIP TO HAVE THIS PROBLEM DIAGNOISED. THE DEALERSHIP REPAIRED THE DIFFERENTIAL WITH A COMPLETELY NEW UNIT FROM BMW AS THE MOTORCYCLE WAS UNDER WARRANTY AT THE TIME. SINCE THIS FAILURE I HAVE HAD ZERO PROBLEMS SINCE. HOWEVER, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, HAD I NOT STOPPED AT A REST AREA ON INTERSTATE 85 WHILE ENROUTE TO CHARLOTTE, NC I MAY NOT BE ALIVE TODAY. WHILE COMING INTO THE REST AREA AT APPROXIMATELY 70 MPH THE REAR END 'LET GO'. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS FAILURES OF THIS DIFFERENTIAL ON THIS MODEL OF BMW AS WELL AS OTHER MODELS OF BMW MOTORCYCLES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT. SINCERELY, [XXX].*AK PARTS OF THIS DOCUMENT HAVE BEEN REDACTED TO PROTECT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6).
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2000 BMW K1200lt complaints
Owner reports filed with NHTSA about this vehicle, newest first and reproduced as filed. They are unverified accounts: one proves nothing, and a pattern across many is the thing worth reading. Back to the full 2000 record →
Power Train › Driveline › Differential Unit
Filed Jun 12, 2002NC
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NHTSA publishes every complaint as the owner wrote it and investigates only a fraction. Spelling, capitalisation and judgement are the filer’s own. What carries weight is repetition: the same component failing the same way across many filings, and whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
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