Fork Oil Capacity 2016 RS

[Grumpy Goat]

The BMW factory service manual has the ESA fork oil capacity as 304 ml left and 682 ml right. 
The problem with the Haynes manual is it just says, for the left fork leg, "Support the fork upside down in the container and allow it to drain for a few minutes." 
If you don't want to completely remove the fork innards (as specified in the factory manual) I have found that it takes about 20 minutes of pumping the upside down fork leg up and down (being very careful not to pull the fork tube out of the slider) to get all the oil out.
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Michael - thanks for again a useful post on how to work on the bike.

I have never done a fork oil replacement job so no documentation or video on it. One of these days (soon?) I will be doing this, since it was last done (at the dealer) around 36k miles and the bike is now at 60k. They claimed that it was not a simple job and they actually took a whole day to do it ... likely not working on my bike all the time during that visit. Anyway I was not impressed enough to not want to bring it back to them, and the other master technician I like moved out of BMW motorcycle service.

I take it that the BMW service manual has the innards being removed for inspection and replacement? Sounds like all you did was change the oil, right? I think that if I am going to go to all that bother I would probably want to replace wear items like seals etc. but I think that special tools may be required.