2004 BMW R1200 RT

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Vehicle Speed Control1
101

What owners reported

Newest filings
Vehicle Speed ControlCrash1 injured
Filed Aug 27, 20062,415 milesCA

2004 R1150R MOTORCYCLE WITH ONLY 2400 MILES ON IT. THROTTLE STUCK GOING INTO A SHARP TURN. HANDLE MOVED BUT ENGINE SPEED DID NOT DECREASE. I SUSTAINED MAJOR INJURIES (BACK BROKEN IN TWO PLACES AND 5 BROKEN RIBS) AND THE BIKE WAS TOTALLED. MY FULL FACE HELMET AND 13 DAYS IN ICU SAVED MY LIFE. *JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2006
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20182000Routine
20172000Routine
20161000Routine
20153000Routine
20146200Do not drive
20136100Routine
201211100Routine
201120300Routine
20109300Routine
200936500Routine
200832510Routine
200752500Routine
200654600Routine
200532500Routine
2004 — this page1000Routine

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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.