deilenberger
A bozo on the bus
Hopefully you ARE reporting these failures to NHTSA? There are links in the fuel-strip survey thread sticky on how to easily do this.. and what parameters to use when you report it.
FWIW - people often complain that the MOA should be more pro-active toward BMW-Motorrad on behalf of the club members. That's not an easy thing to do if people don't take some responsibility and effort themselves. In this case - reporting failures to NHTSA so they get an idea of the failure rate is something YOU can do that may result in an outcome you'll be happy with. It's good you can post failures here, but the NHTSA isn't reading this forum so it is basically just venting. After you vent here - visit the NHTSA website and report the failure, that may well help all of us (and I believe it already has with BMW's extending the warranty to 12 years from in-service date for the fuel strips.)
FWIW - people often complain that the MOA should be more pro-active toward BMW-Motorrad on behalf of the club members. That's not an easy thing to do if people don't take some responsibility and effort themselves. In this case - reporting failures to NHTSA so they get an idea of the failure rate is something YOU can do that may result in an outcome you'll be happy with. It's good you can post failures here, but the NHTSA isn't reading this forum so it is basically just venting. After you vent here - visit the NHTSA website and report the failure, that may well help all of us (and I believe it already has with BMW's extending the warranty to 12 years from in-service date for the fuel strips.)
I don't expect it to be perfectly accurate. The original was - for 36 months. The light would come on with about a gallon left, maybe a bit less, and the one time I kept going to push the limit on the range countdown, I think one or two miles after it hit zero, I was out. That was a couple years ago, so I don't think that one time hurt either the pump or the original strip. I was only a few hundred yards from a station, so I tipped the bike left, started it back up, and rode on to the station. Basically, the way it has been acting, until this morning, you're just looking at that yellow triangle for 30 to 40 miles, before you should be. Not the end of the world. I guess each of us would draw the line at different points. I was unhappy the warning light came on with 1.7 gallons left. A question for you - no disrepect to a guy who's been around since the Underwood days - would you be upset if yours came on with 2 gallons left? 3 gallons? Heck, some guys don't seem upset their gauge doesn't work at all. If the bike had a reserve like my airhead, and that triangle wasn't glaring at me - that would be OK.
