Didi
Member
Dear all,
I want to ask you if you have in the US the same problem of oil spillage of the final drive as in Germany.
On our German Forum we have an opinion poll running and of 29 participants up-to-now 9 have this problem (including me, pictures are from me).
We talk here about a motorbike (although the 9 come from all production years) which is 9 months old, was never driven in rain, only hand-washed (no high pressure), never driven above 80 miles/hour with a milage of 3.000 now. So no special cause to be seen here. Certainly passed the first service at 700 miles.
You see the spillage over the final drive in fine but many lines.
which reach the rims
and now it becomes dangerous also reaches the tire. When you look closely one line actually reaches already the tread of the tire.
Hell, how much to we enjoy oil between tire and asphalt
I have reported it to the BMW headquarters already.
So what I recommend is that everybody checks his final drive to avoid an accident.
What would interest me - and I found no possibility here to create an opinion poll - how many of your bikes are affected as well. Does anybody know how to create an opinion poll here?
In any case, please respond to this thread with your own experiences and pictures please.
Most dealers will only see this once or twice and either not recognize it or respond with the typical 'never heard of it - it's not a serial fault'.
For the ones who know me; I am running the repair manual Wiki https://www.r1800wiki.org/ for the BMW R18 since BMW does not publish one.
Here I would also recommend the article what to check before warranty runs out:
https://www.r1800wiki.org/2023/06/03/auf-was-zu-achten-bei-ablauf-gewaehrleistung-oder-garantie/
I want to ask you if you have in the US the same problem of oil spillage of the final drive as in Germany.
On our German Forum we have an opinion poll running and of 29 participants up-to-now 9 have this problem (including me, pictures are from me).
We talk here about a motorbike (although the 9 come from all production years) which is 9 months old, was never driven in rain, only hand-washed (no high pressure), never driven above 80 miles/hour with a milage of 3.000 now. So no special cause to be seen here. Certainly passed the first service at 700 miles.
You see the spillage over the final drive in fine but many lines.
which reach the rims
and now it becomes dangerous also reaches the tire. When you look closely one line actually reaches already the tread of the tire.
Hell, how much to we enjoy oil between tire and asphalt
I have reported it to the BMW headquarters already.
So what I recommend is that everybody checks his final drive to avoid an accident.
What would interest me - and I found no possibility here to create an opinion poll - how many of your bikes are affected as well. Does anybody know how to create an opinion poll here?
In any case, please respond to this thread with your own experiences and pictures please.
Most dealers will only see this once or twice and either not recognize it or respond with the typical 'never heard of it - it's not a serial fault'.
For the ones who know me; I am running the repair manual Wiki https://www.r1800wiki.org/ for the BMW R18 since BMW does not publish one.
Here I would also recommend the article what to check before warranty runs out:
https://www.r1800wiki.org/2023/06/03/auf-was-zu-achten-bei-ablauf-gewaehrleistung-oder-garantie/