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Felix wrote: Mon Sep 22, 2025 8:00 pm Is that Dalkeith? It must be like a bloody Tardis. Only ever glanced over when i drive past but never actually went in as it just looks small.

'Small' was the Cooper Reading bike showroom at their old site.

Enough space for three bikes, a desk, and wall shelves!

Given how known BMWs are for crap paint I can't imagine it'll be an issue, and if it was they'll sort it I'd have thought to keep the sale.

Turns out I did the right thing by calling up today.

Because I’m still in possession of the bike they can put it through as a warranty claim from BMW. I just had to sign a job sheet.

If I had waited till they picked it up and took it to the showroom it was then their problem and they can’t put in a warranty claim for a bike they own.

So it’s getting picked up Wednesday night when they drop off the new one.

Scotsrich wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 12:43 pm Turns out I did the right thing by calling up today.

Because I’m still in possession of the bike they can put it through as a warranty claim from BMW. I just had to sign a job sheet.

If I had waited till they picked it up and took it to the showroom it was then their problem and they can’t put in a warranty claim for a bike they own.

So it’s getting picked up Wednesday night when they drop off the new one.

I hope they recognise your commitment to fair dealing. As you've, potentially, saved them money/hassle* I think a free topbox is the least they could chuck into the deal.

* I'm assuming they'd rattle-can it.

Count Steer wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:05 pm

Scotsrich wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 12:43 pm Turns out I did the right thing by calling up today.

Because I’m still in possession of the bike they can put it through as a warranty claim from BMW. I just had to sign a job sheet.

If I had waited till they picked it up and took it to the showroom it was then their problem and they can’t put in a warranty claim for a bike they own.

So it’s getting picked up Wednesday night when they drop off the new one.

I hope they recognise your commitment to fair dealing. As you've, potentially, saved them money/hassle* I think a free topbox is the least they could chuck into the deal.

* I'm assuming they'd rattle-can it.

If it was them fixing it they might rattle can it but they don’t seem that kind of place. A warranty claim is new barrels at the very least.

Hopefully they’re going to forget about the 2 k miles that I underestimated the mileage at when they gave me the trade in price.

You'd have thought that after a steady stream of new engines/barrels they'd just pay a little extra for better paint in the first place...or no paint at all!

Supermofo wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 2:24 pm You'd have thought that after a steady stream of new engines/barrels they'd just pay a little extra for better paint in the first place...or no paint at all!

My R65 had 'corrosion resistant' paint on its wheels. Guess what ...

Well it got through the gate with about 10mm clearance each side

Phew, even the salesman that brought it down was sweating.

Just over 3k on the bike now.

I was away for the weekend and pulled the bike out the shed Friday morning and pressed the ignition…nothing. Not a peep. I phoned my salesman mate at the dealer and he brought down a starter pack and it fired up no problem.

I took a pack with me in case it happened again but 400 miles and it’s been fine. Hopefully just one of these things, I don’t know if it was the bike draining the battery or the lithium battery shutting down.

If I leave my (much older 2016) GS for over two weeks without riding or charging it's always flat as a fart.

I think it's the optional BMW alarm that kills mine.

ILast month I watched a YT upload by The Superbike Surgery on a BMW GS with a parasitic draw problem.It turned out that the owner had fitted a tracker & it was draining the battery.Has your GS got a tracker fitted?

Wife and i went down to Melrose today on the bike for lunch. Road down and home was full of bikes and we noticed the least likely rider to give a nod or a cheery wave was Adventure bike riders.

£256 for a service, basically just an engine and rear drive oil change. Oh well, such is life.

Got to back in in a couple of weeks because the hill start isn’t working and it sometimes has trouble shifting up from second to third. Warranty work if anything is wrong hopefully.

Is that at BMW? Doesn't seem bad to me compared to some others.

A GS you say? You'll soon be rounding corners on the wrong side of the road

.. based on my experience of riders on the wrong side of the road coming straight at me.... It's happened 6 times, 5 of the riders were on GS's.

ZRX61 wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2026 5:33 pm A GS you say? You'll soon be rounding corners on the wrong side of the road

.. based on my experience of riders on the wrong side of the road coming straight at me.... It's happened 6 times, 5 of the riders were on GS's.

I pay for the road so I’m sure as hell going to use all of it.

They were probably British...ergo, they were on the correct side and all the Merkins on the wrong side.

I serviced my 2016 GS LC a couple of weeks back. I did everything but the FD oil. I bought it all from the Motorworks Ebay shop, which strangely was cheaper than buying it from their own webshite. The kit included the FD filler and drain washer/seals, just not the oil.

Air filter, oil filter, two plugs, 4l of Silkolene and all the washers and even a new oil filler cap o-ring for £99... but ebay were offering a discount on certain vendors, so it actually cost £81 iirc.

Of course I had to do the work myself. Removing the crash bars to change the plugs is a chore!

I've also got a decent ODBC dongle and a fully paid up MotoScan app so I can reset the service light.

£256 sounds pretty good for a dealer to change the Engine/FD oil. Their hourly rate must be going on £100p/h.

£100p/h is cheap for a BMW dealership.

Scotsrich wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2026 9:43 pm I pay for the road so I’m sure as hell going to use all of it.

That's how I feel about the speedometer....