deilenberger
A bozo on the bus
I think Kevin Greenwald discussed this on a different final drive thread a while back (sorry it it wasn't you Kevin), but when the BMW dude just "implies" no one is going to have to pay for a failed final drive, it doesn't give an owner much of a warm fuzzy feeling about their investment in a high end bike. It's not a show stopper, but it's not really great either. Wouldn't it give you a lot more confidence if BMW had a formal, written policy that said they'd cover final drive failures on maintained drives for something like 5 years and 100,000 miles rather than having it be something that gets casually discussed at a rally and then passed on through web forums?
He actually asked the audience if anyone there had paid for a rear-drive repair. No one replied in the positive. Despite there being people who were rather obviously upset by the failures.
Would it give me more "confidence"? Perhaps - but with as low a failure rate as they claim (and they should have the actual numbers), I'm not lacking confidence in the bike now (leaving on the 19th for a 3,000 mile ride in the wilds of Canada..)