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<blockquote data-quote="FJRBluesman" data-source="post: 1417985" data-attributes="member: 5903"><p>Dave;</p><p></p><p>Stop drinking the Kool Aid!</p><p></p><p>BMW - Bring More Wallet!</p><p></p><p>I'll never own another BMW AGAIN! Had a 1996 K1100R, my daily rider, lovely when it didn't need work. Which was a lot! With only 50K miles on it the bike went thru two out put shafts, three clutches, and twice replacing the seal at the water/oil pump (kept leaking out the weep hole). One output shaft was my fault didn't lube when recommended, why...??? Because you have to yank the entire ass end of the bike off to lube it! The swing arm, sub frame, wheel, transmission, battery, ABS module, and then re-bleed brakes, etc. What a POS engineering! They want this done early! I'll give you this, I got real good and fast at doing this, about 8 hours to tear down and another 12 to reassemble, just to lube the splines. I do that on the FJR in about an hour with minimal disassembly. That being said I also took the bike in for each oil change to have BMW behind the bike. No such luck, anything that they found they wanted extra to fix. When I went to sell it I went back to the dealer as they had an FJR for sale, and they knew my maintenance history. Well they wanted over $1200 to do "repairs" to get it sell-able. After all my loyalty they thru me to the curb. I sold the the bike on ebay for well over double what BMW wanted to give me, and bought my FJR private party.</p><p></p><p>I'll say this to end on a positive note. Some things on the bike were well engineered and thought out and I really liked and wish FJRs had them. But it wasn't worth it to me.</p><p></p><p>My rant is over...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FJRBluesman, post: 1417985, member: 5903"] Dave; Stop drinking the Kool Aid! BMW - Bring More Wallet! I'll never own another BMW AGAIN! Had a 1996 K1100R, my daily rider, lovely when it didn't need work. Which was a lot! With only 50K miles on it the bike went thru two out put shafts, three clutches, and twice replacing the seal at the water/oil pump (kept leaking out the weep hole). One output shaft was my fault didn't lube when recommended, why...??? Because you have to yank the entire ass end of the bike off to lube it! The swing arm, sub frame, wheel, transmission, battery, ABS module, and then re-bleed brakes, etc. What a POS engineering! They want this done early! I'll give you this, I got real good and fast at doing this, about 8 hours to tear down and another 12 to reassemble, just to lube the splines. I do that on the FJR in about an hour with minimal disassembly. That being said I also took the bike in for each oil change to have BMW behind the bike. No such luck, anything that they found they wanted extra to fix. When I went to sell it I went back to the dealer as they had an FJR for sale, and they knew my maintenance history. Well they wanted over $1200 to do "repairs" to get it sell-able. After all my loyalty they thru me to the curb. I sold the the bike on ebay for well over double what BMW wanted to give me, and bought my FJR private party. I'll say this to end on a positive note. Some things on the bike were well engineered and thought out and I really liked and wish FJRs had them. But it wasn't worth it to me. My rant is over... [/QUOTE]
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