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TourNut
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Down at the MOA Rally , I test rode a new, 1600 mile R1200RT, with my wife as passenger, It performed great, had decent , quiet , smooth power from stopped -on up. Why Doesn't Mine , which only had 1400 miles at the time down there ??
My '08 rattles and knocks at, from stopped, on up, Vibrates more and gets 32mpg
when everybody else at the rally and motels that had the same engine were getting about 50, 2 up, and their bike didn't rattle and knock .
I bought it new, had the 600 mile check done by the dealer, when I complained about the sound then, as you could hear it at just idle.
I got it back, mechanic says"they all are that way, it just needs to break in"
Taking his "expert advice", I have rode it the way I got it back from 600 mile service and it sounds worse than ever , with more breakin miles, a little less than 3K , getting back from the rally. At the rally , going up and down the hills in the rally site, people would turn around and look "concerned" when they heard the knocking, while other R1200RTs were quietly putt-ing through the crowd.
Did I get sold a bad one, Do I cut my losses , about $20,000 , and sell it, lose about $5K or what?
Will BMW do right by me , somehow, or am I screwed $20.K with a ruined bike that the local dealer's mechanic can't make it run like a good one, twice ?
I still have a 28 year old SilverWing that runs better than this, should I write off having a BMW and go back to it ? What causes knocking that hopefully can be tuned out ? As sophisticated as this model is supposed to be , mechanically and computer controlled , how can it run so bad without the display not indicating a problem? I am sick and feel screwed about all this ! The next closest dealer is 3 hours away. Oh yeah , getting the bike back after the 600 mile check, 2 of my plastic body panels on the left side were scraped up, costing me $165. to paint-match and repaint! Out of my pocket, since at that point when I found it after getting home, it would just be my word against their's , so I ate that.
My '08 rattles and knocks at, from stopped, on up, Vibrates more and gets 32mpg
when everybody else at the rally and motels that had the same engine were getting about 50, 2 up, and their bike didn't rattle and knock .
I bought it new, had the 600 mile check done by the dealer, when I complained about the sound then, as you could hear it at just idle.
I got it back, mechanic says"they all are that way, it just needs to break in"
Taking his "expert advice", I have rode it the way I got it back from 600 mile service and it sounds worse than ever , with more breakin miles, a little less than 3K , getting back from the rally. At the rally , going up and down the hills in the rally site, people would turn around and look "concerned" when they heard the knocking, while other R1200RTs were quietly putt-ing through the crowd.
Did I get sold a bad one, Do I cut my losses , about $20,000 , and sell it, lose about $5K or what?
Will BMW do right by me , somehow, or am I screwed $20.K with a ruined bike that the local dealer's mechanic can't make it run like a good one, twice ?
I still have a 28 year old SilverWing that runs better than this, should I write off having a BMW and go back to it ? What causes knocking that hopefully can be tuned out ? As sophisticated as this model is supposed to be , mechanically and computer controlled , how can it run so bad without the display not indicating a problem? I am sick and feel screwed about all this ! The next closest dealer is 3 hours away. Oh yeah , getting the bike back after the 600 mile check, 2 of my plastic body panels on the left side were scraped up, costing me $165. to paint-match and repaint! Out of my pocket, since at that point when I found it after getting home, it would just be my word against their's , so I ate that.
