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2018 GSA reflector recall
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lee
Debbie's Servant
AKsuited
New member
My dealer closed before the reflector issue on my R1200GS could be officially remedied. At least I had the fork recall done before Country Rode closed their doors. As I mentioned, I already fixed the reflector issue myself with some truck stop red reflective tape wrapped around the rear corners of the Vario cases.
lee
Debbie's Servant
I chose to ignore the reflector recall for our RSs as I did not like the placement BMW calls for.
I'm also ignoring the recall for the BMW HP LED turn signal we have on the RSs.
riderr1150gsadv
Well-known member
Those reflectors on the luggage rack weigh about a pound a look like cr^p so I took them off. I have plenty of reflective material on the bike and myself to be seen.
The reflectors sticking out below the soft luggage is really dumb looking so I too suspect of it's imminent removal by the new owner....
The reflectors sticking out below the soft luggage is really dumb looking so I too suspect of it's imminent removal by the new owner....
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gsinnc
Well-known member
The reflector fix on the Adventures was tolerable both on the racks and the bags in my opinion. Odd but my 2012 has the very same bags but my dealer said I was not part of the recall. But those things on the soft bags just look stupid! I'd be removing them before I got home from the dealer!
You must have done something else, because I'm pretty sure they follow you in black G-Wagons.
brookscooper
New member
Lawyer here - the above is incorrect. The bikes cannot be sold if they don’t meet DOT regs. This issue makes them non-compliant. It’s a regulation thing, not a liability thing
pglaves
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Or both.
brookscooper
New member
We can have this debate if we want. But the post I quoted reflects a very bad. Mis-understanding of US product liability law. It does not work as that poster (no offense intended) thinks it does.
This is off topic to the thread but it really bothers me that decades of insurance industry propaganda have convinced many of us that our litigation system is “jackpot justice” or some other nonsense.
If anyone really cares to have this debate send me a PM and I’ll start a thread in the appropriate general section so as not to hijack this thread / section.
I work on product liability cases among others (both for the plaintiff and the defendants) and have done so for over 20 years.
