1999 BMW R1100 RS

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the power train. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Power Train	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Power Train

Filed Jul 26, 2000NY

THE SPEEDOMETER AND THE TACHOMETER ON THIS VEHICLE IS REGISTERING 10% LESS THAN INDICATED. CALIBRATION WAS DONE BY ACCURATE GPS, MEASURED DISTANCE AND THE ADDITION OF A PRECISELY CALIBRATED INSTRUMENT. ON 7/21/2000 I BROUGHT THE MOTORCYCLE IN TO THE BMW DEALER WHO SOLD IT TO ME AND THE SERVICE MANAGER, SEBASTIAN TOLD ME THAT I WAS CORRECT. THE OWNER, JOEL SACHER, TOLD ME THAT "THEY ALL DO THAT" AND THAT BMW REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PROBLEM. THE MAIN ISSUE IS THAT THE 36000 MILE WARRANTEE IS BEING REDUCED BY 10%. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1996

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Assessment
2000	1	0	Routine
1999 — this page	1	0	Routine
1998	2	0	Routine
1996	3	0	Routine
1995	2	2	Routine
1994	1	2	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.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.