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1988 BMW BMW Motorcycle Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest May 10, 2002
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since May 10, 2002

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1988 BMW BMW Motorcycle. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Fuel system
Filed May 10, 2002

ALUMUMIN FUEL TANK HAS DEVELOPED SPIDER CRACKS ON BOTTOM OF TANK AND LEAKS. VARIOUS BMW DEALERS HAVE TOLD ME THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH BMW ALUMUMINUN TANKS, BUT THE BIKE IS OUT OF WARRANTY AND THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS PROBLEM.

NHTSA ID
761770
Incident
Mar 1, 2002

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

Data sources

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