BMW C600 reliability problems

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Re: BMW C600 reliability problems

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SkuTorr wrote:...but it's been almost THREE YEARS since the initial product roll-out, and NOTHING has been changed, except the colors.

If you go to a BMW dealer website with the parts catalog, you'll find that MYRIAD COMMON repair/wear-replacement parts aren't even AVAILABLE.

i.e.:
1) Engine valves/head/head gasket, or even ENGINE. This is why a bad tensioner bending a valve gets you a NEW BIKE! The BMW dealer can't fix it.
2) Front brake caliper repair kits or calipers. You get two with every bike you buy; no repair possible. Hope they never leak...

If you go through the catalog pages you'll see all the other stuff that isn't available or even stocked by the factory. For one customer in Europe, a regional Manager have had them pull an engine off of the ASSEMBLY LINE to fix a tensioner-killed bike.

Three years and NO PARTS AVAILABILITY??? There just aren't enough excuses you can make about that...
Yes that is bad Sku. Not actually trying to defend them though. Just explaining what normally happens to fix these things and it seems somehow it's not happening properly or at all with BMW. Didn't realise the extent of the issues. If true that's inexcusable!
Probably not ugly enough for the 'Ugly Bunch'! :lol:

Been riding for 55 years & owned too many bikes to list here...

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