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1986 BMW K75 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 Sep 18, 2009
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 Sep 18, 2009

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1986 BMW K75. 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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Driver assistance
Filed Sep 18, 2009

THIS IS AN ISSUE IDENTIFIED IN NHTSA CAMPAIGN ID NUMBER: 86V080000. THE VIN OF MY MOTORCYCLE FALLS IN THE RANGE OF VINS IDENTIFIED IN THE CAMPAIGN. MY MOTORCYCLE HAS APPROXIMATELY 12,000 MILES ON IT SINCE NEW, AND NO FACTORY RECALL SERVICE HAS EVER BEEN PERFORMED ON THIS MOTORCYCLE. THE THROTTLE GOT STUCK THE OTHER DAY IN A FULL-OPEN POSITION WHILE PASSING ANOTHER VEHICLE AT SPEED. NO ACCIDENT OCCURRED, BUT IT CERTAINLY COULD HAVE. THE ONLY WAY I WAS ABLE TO REGAIN CONTROL OF THE MOTORCYCLE AND SLOW DOWN ENOUGH TO SAFELY NEGOTIATE AN UPCOMING CORNER WAS TO KILL THE ENGINE. ON-SITE EXAMINATION REVEALED A KINK OF THE THROTTLE CABLE WITH A FRAYED THROTTLE WIRE. WHEN I WENT TO A BMW MOTORCYCLE DEALER A FEW DAYS LATER FOR REPLACEMENT OF THE CABLE UNDER THE NHTSA CAMPAIGN, I WAS INFORMED THAT THERE WERE "NO OPEN CAMPAIGNS" ON MY MOTORCYCLE, ALTHOUGH YOUR DOCUMENTATION CLEARLY LISTS MY VIN IN THE RANGE OF BIKES THAT SEEM TO BE EFFECTED. I WAS ALSO NEVER INFORMED OF ANY FACTORY RECALLS WHEN I PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT THE BIKE IN FOR SERVICE. IS THERE AN EXPIRATION DATE ON THIS PARTICULAR CAMPAIGN? *TR

NHTSA ID
10284487
Incident
Sep 15, 2009
Mileage
12,000 mi

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.

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