Thread: Nothing Happens

BMW is covering the repairs and damage 100%. Thank you BMW NA and Ride West BMW! My bike should be back in my hands around Christmas time!

Quote: Originally Posted by sparkyblue Does your product work similar to the FRK product? Been lots of discussion here about it. It simply replaces the temperture sensor thermistor with a fixed resistor value that makes the FI system think it is colder than it really is. A trivially simple concept. The result is that the FI supplies a mixture that is a little more rich, because it thinks the ambient temperature is colder than it actually is...

Quote: Originally Posted by WMD Don't know what the mileage was for the 1st and 2nd set of readings - but a change (loss of clearance) of .005 - .008" seems very excessive - if real. To loose that much would mean the valve seat or valve has worn down. For comparison - iIn 40K miles on my RS the largest change I saw was .003. What I am really saying is that at least one set of those numbers seems suspect! Looking at the numbers,...

The K1300x bikes use a bearing setup very similar to this fix. I also changed my "ball end" joints" to Heim joints and really find the shifting smoother overall.

I looked at my camshafts. The place they are breaking is at a machined slot with sharp edges. This is an obvious site for stress risers and a machining fault of BMW's engineering. IMO. Good thing this isn't happening too frequently.

Quote: Originally Posted by harlie75 I'm a pilot and own my own plane. I know the difference. Thanks for the concern. Good... I got a bit scared there...

David, did you get that info from your local BMW dealer? That contradicts what Bob's BMW in MD. recommends for CanBus equiped bikes.

I looked at my camshafts. The place they are breaking is at a machined slot with sharp edges. This is an obvious site for stress risers and a machining fault of BMW's engineering. IMO. Good thing this isn't happening too frequently.

When I bought my '05 K12S, the dealer gave me an additional regular key at no charge because he thought it was so cheap of BMW to supply only one. I believe my '08 K12S came standard with 2 regular keys... don't remember but I did have 2 regular keys for it. My K13S came standard with 2 regular keys and a plastic one...

Bob you have done a 180 on this? Interesting. Royal Purple has always worked for me and it's good for limited slip diffs so I may stick some in my truck. Any high quality synthetic oil will do.