jsykora
New member
Here's a dilemma I need some educated feedback on, mostly as I've never owned a bike into it's middle age years, but I absolutely love riding the K1600 GTL (which I bought used last spring) and want to maintain it in highway touring condition.
It's currently at the dealer, High Road BMW in Vancouver, for 50,000km service, and it turns out the check engine warning light which was coming on intermittently for the past few week related to a failing/failed ignition coil in one cylinder.
The debate I'm having (internal to my brain at this point) is whether it's prudent to replace all six coils at this time, or to wait for the 60,000km service? Some cost factors include it is three hours of labour ($150 Cdn per hour) to access the valve heads, whether for one or all six, and of course this needs to be done anyway for the 60k service, plus it's about $400 for each ignition coil installed. Also wondering the likelihood of having more check engine warning as the some of the other five fail over the next 10,000 km, and possibly cause a debilitated bike on a trip.
Any one else have a similar dilemma they could share some learned decision making logic from?
The technician won't get to it until Tuesday, so I have a few days to decide.
Cheers, in advance.
JS
North Vancouver, BC
It's currently at the dealer, High Road BMW in Vancouver, for 50,000km service, and it turns out the check engine warning light which was coming on intermittently for the past few week related to a failing/failed ignition coil in one cylinder.
The debate I'm having (internal to my brain at this point) is whether it's prudent to replace all six coils at this time, or to wait for the 60,000km service? Some cost factors include it is three hours of labour ($150 Cdn per hour) to access the valve heads, whether for one or all six, and of course this needs to be done anyway for the 60k service, plus it's about $400 for each ignition coil installed. Also wondering the likelihood of having more check engine warning as the some of the other five fail over the next 10,000 km, and possibly cause a debilitated bike on a trip.
Any one else have a similar dilemma they could share some learned decision making logic from?
The technician won't get to it until Tuesday, so I have a few days to decide.
Cheers, in advance.
JS
North Vancouver, BC