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Well I picked up my 21 RT yesterday at the dealer. I can confirm no radio, no TPMS. Active Cruise Control works vs. the issue Ducati is having. I received two BMW comm headsets and a bike to bike module in lieu of the radio. I don’t need the headsets or module, I’m going to see if the dealer or BMW will give me a credit for something else. Otherwise the bike is grand.
Well I picked up my 21 RT yesterday at the dealer. I can confirm no radio, no TPMS. Active Cruise Control works vs. the issue Ducati is having. I received two BMW comm headsets and a bike to bike module in lieu of the radio. I don’t need the headsets or module, I’m going to see if the dealer or BMW will give me a credit for something else. Otherwise the bike is grand.
I forgot to mention my iPhone 12 Pro Max does not fit in the charging compartment, bummer.
Good time for BMW to start work on a model without quite so many chips (technology). They could also cut down on a few other extras, and save some weight. Take that lemon and make some lemonade.
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I think they'd have to stop building bikes if they weren't able to get the chips which control the emissions system. The Euro-5 standard seems to have become a rest-of-the-world standard by default. Here's a link to a dense, but interesting article regarding the system:https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesoci...uro-5-emissions-what-they-mean-to-motorcycles
As to TPMS on new bikes, I have looked into the cost of a retrofit of the TPMS if the system were not built into the bike at the factory. If a local BMW dealer in the US is asked to do it, they have to check with BMW NA with the VIN to see if a retrofit is possible. If it's allowed by the original electronic configuration, then the total retrofit cost is between $1000 and $1500 dollars.
Hi Ex. I'm in the automotive business. I can get aftermarket sensors which would transmit on the same common frequency used by BMW Motorad. Receiver/display units are available for people with trailers who often want TPMS installed. Trailers most often don't come with TPMS. An entire kit for two wheels might run $250. Installation would be additional and would require dismounting each wheel and then refitting. The receiver could be wired into the electrical system and stored in a 'cubby'. I've never done it on a bike, I'd estimate the cost at around $600 to $700.
I pick up my bike on Wednesday. I wonder if you could do the same thing many of us do when we buy snows and wheels with tpms. Buy wheels with aftermarket tpms and then go to the dealer and they “synch” the aftermarket system to the bike. Even better if it could be done with a gs-911. Many newer cars don’t even require the dealer visit.
There are major fiascos with the global supply chain that will need to be addressed. (If I said much more it would be banned as a political rant.)
Well, cruisincruzan my experience in dealing with BMW NA over this issue is that the expensive part of the retrofit is the electronics (maybe read that as "chips" in this time) installed (or not) in the motorcycle which will accept and interpret the information the wheel sensors are sending out. If the receiving/interpreting chip is not in the electronics of the bike, then putting a pressure sensor in the wheel will transmit pressure information into the ether, so to speak.
But be happy you can actually get a motorcycle.