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Another new fuel strip?
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mikegalbicka
Back in the saddle again
fuel strip
jeffkruger
New member
Does sound like the fuel strip. I'm on #5 or 6 in my 07 GSA.
mikegalbicka
Back in the saddle again
Will soon get my third in less than two years with this 07RT.
deilenberger
A bozo on the bus
So far on the 2012 - I'm only on the 2nd one, but it appears to be getting a bit flakey.
On my '07 R1200R I went though 7 or so of them. I think I must be filling the tank wrong.. If you look in the filler of the R1200R with a maglite - the fuel strip is directly below the filler hole, no way to miss it. With NJ having vapor-recovery boots on the hoses, it's usually necessary to put the nozzle rather far in the tank to get the pump to go on. Chances are excellent the fuel is gushing right against the fuel strip. Next strip that goes in will have a protective shield over it above the strip - made from a plastic oil bottle and some tie-wraps.. we'll see if that will help.
On my '07 R1200R I went though 7 or so of them. I think I must be filling the tank wrong.. If you look in the filler of the R1200R with a maglite - the fuel strip is directly below the filler hole, no way to miss it. With NJ having vapor-recovery boots on the hoses, it's usually necessary to put the nozzle rather far in the tank to get the pump to go on. Chances are excellent the fuel is gushing right against the fuel strip. Next strip that goes in will have a protective shield over it above the strip - made from a plastic oil bottle and some tie-wraps.. we'll see if that will help.
lee
Debbie's Servant
Don, you might check and see if the ADV member still sells the little plastic tool to hold back the vapor recover tool.
Here's the thread.
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/vapor-recovery-nozzle-tool.647816/
deilenberger
A bozo on the bus
I've considered these - but the way the cap is mounted on the R1200 bikes, this tool would likely be as big an impediment as the vapor recovery boot. Plus - it's likely to end up causing me to spill gas (klutz!).. usually I just hold the nozzle with one hand and the boot back with the other.
Funny thing - some stations don't have the boot, even in NJ - but certain brands (like BP) always have them. Unfortunately - the most convenient station to me is a BP.. (and I get a discount using their credit card - $0.02 per fillup, which can be saved up. I fill the bike there a lot - and don't use it - saving up until I have something like $0.50/gallon saved - then I bring the tanker over and fill that up [Cayenne has a 24 gallon tank.. 20 gallons at $0.50 discount = $10.00.].) But, I digress..
lee
Debbie's Servant
It works great for me. I've been carrying the plastic tool in my tank bag for the last 3 years and in that time none of the stations we have stopped at had the vapor recovery boot
HowardR1200RT
New member
Does 2012 model year still use fuel strip? I thought around 2010 BMW started using mechanical fuel sender i.e. float
mikegalbicka
Back in the saddle again
From other posts I have seen this: 2005-2013 R and K series motorcycles that contain a film type fuel level sender fuel strip.
Look up a specific bike here:
http://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/us/en...les.com/us/en/virtualcenter/index_recall.html
lee
Debbie's Servant
I don't think the R1200R switched to a float until 2015 when the new water cooled model was released.
Most of the other models went to a float in 2009 or 2010.
pglaves
#13338
No - that was back in 1986 after the 1983-1985 K bike fiasco.
deilenberger
A bozo on the bus
Lee is correct. The R1200R continued to use a fuel-strip until the introduction of the water cooled model (and I don't know for sure what that uses - but I'd guess not a fuel strip.) The other R1200 series camheads started using a float sometime around 2010 or 2011 I believe. Unfortunately that can't be retrofitted on the R1200R.
b25bsaboy
New member
I keep reading about the failed fuel strips and when I was into my BMW dealer here in Calgary last summer having the rear wheel flange replaced on warranty I bought the question up about fuel strips. It seems in Canada we are not having this issue and it made me wonder why. Then it hit me that in the US the fuel blends are ethanol mix I am wondering out loud if the strips do not like the ethanol blend?
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rangerreece
RangerReece
It's been mentioned before. Frankly I think it's plausible that the gumming action of ethanol on internal combustion carburetors, especially when it sits on the components over winter, could have a detrimental effect on a sensitive component like the fuel strip. I've been running ethanol free in the bike since I've owned it, and I ride it year round. I had one failure, after about 10years of use, replaced free by dealer, but that failure may be due to the ethanol that was used in tank for first 23,000 miles by first owner, or the occasional stray ethanol that may find its way in my tank by less than honest gas merchants.
deilenberger
A bozo on the bus
Actually - it has no correlation with ethanol. I also visited a dealership in Canada (in New Brunswick, near Moncton) last fall, and asked what their experience with failing fuel strips was. They've seen just as many as the dealers in the US. When I was in Europe 2 years ago, I asked a few dealers in Europe (where the availability of non-ethanol fuel is much greater and ethanol laced fuel was somewhat rare in several countries we went through), and they told me "use the odometer 300KM then get gas.." They ALSO were seeing lots of failures.
It's not the gas, it's a crappy design, located in a bad place in the tank with substandard QC. IE - BMW screwed up.
