2023 BMW R 1250 RT

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the forward collision avoidance › adaptive cruise control. It has been recalled 1 time.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Forward Collision Avoidance › Adaptive Cruise Control	1		0	0	0

1 safety recall

Part 573 reports

Power Train › Manual Transmission › Internal › Shaft › Input23V011000

Filed Jan 18, 202318,534 vehiclesBmw Of North America, Llc

Defect. BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2019-2023 R1250GS, R1250GS Adventure, and R1250RTP motorcycles. In certain engine operating and riding conditions, the gearbox input shaft may become damaged or break, possibly resulting in a blocked rear wheel.

Risk. A damaged gearbox input shaft or a blocked rear wheel can increase the risk of a crash.

Remedy. Dealers will update the engine control unit software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 22, 2023. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.

What owners reported

Newest filings

Forward Collision Avoidance › Adaptive Cruise Control

Filed Jul 21, 2024VA

I believe the BMW configuration of the adaptive cruise control following distance selection might result in a rear end collision. I normally set the following distance to the longest setting, which corresponds to a two-second following distance (IMO, the minimum safe distance). I am fairly often caught off-guard by the system because the next time the bike is started, the following distance defaults to the *closest* following distance, and does so WITH NO visual warning in the instrument panel (the following distance is not displayed when cruise is set; it is displayed only after the distance control button on the left grip cluster is pressed). In my case, despite knowing this I still have been surprised to find myself too close to the vehicle in front, and have to rapidly hit the distance setting button to back off. For others without this knowledge, the potential injury concern is someone setting their cruise control with the NOT-DISPLAYED too-short default following distance, and then not having enough reaction time to avoid sudden deceleration of the front vehicle (e.g., set the cruise with the default too-short distance, and shortly thereafter the front driver brakes to avoid an animal before the rider has a chance to figure out why he/she is following closer than he/she intended). This should be easily fixed with a simple software fix: either (i) programming the default cruise following distance to be the longest distance, or better yet, (ii) have the following distance

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2019

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2024	2	1	Routine
2023 — this page	1	1	Routine
2022	1	1	Routine
2021	4	2	Routine
2020	6	5	Routine
2019	9	4	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Recall repairs are free for as long as the recall stands. Check whether a specific car still has open work at NHTSA's VIN lookup.

Most recent recall on file: Jan 18, 2023. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.