03-05-2021, 03:12 AM
Good morning,
RS now all back ready to ride and I have recovered from kneeling on the garage floor.
This drive shaft issue seems like a shot in BMW's foot as the USP on the R and K series is the shaft drive. Yet NO maintainace at all.
The cry from them that you must have riden through a river or used a pressure washer is rubbish, their test riders must have never spent hours on a motorway at 70 mph in the pissing rain. That really will put water into any device not fully sealed !! We all know don't we.
Maybe the designers have not allowed for the fact that the top of the tyre is traveling at twice the speed of the wheel spindle and at 70 is spraying water around at 140mph! My garden hose cannot do that.
If a check and grease was added to the 12000/2year service BMW would have probally saved thousands in claim costs, not had bad press and THE CUSTOMER would be paying for the fix. a win -win for them.
AlanM
RS now all back ready to ride and I have recovered from kneeling on the garage floor.
This drive shaft issue seems like a shot in BMW's foot as the USP on the R and K series is the shaft drive. Yet NO maintainace at all.
The cry from them that you must have riden through a river or used a pressure washer is rubbish, their test riders must have never spent hours on a motorway at 70 mph in the pissing rain. That really will put water into any device not fully sealed !! We all know don't we.
Maybe the designers have not allowed for the fact that the top of the tyre is traveling at twice the speed of the wheel spindle and at 70 is spraying water around at 140mph! My garden hose cannot do that.
If a check and grease was added to the 12000/2year service BMW would have probally saved thousands in claim costs, not had bad press and THE CUSTOMER would be paying for the fix. a win -win for them.
AlanM