Bike broke down on A5, any ideas what the issue could be?

Hi all,

Riding along along all ok and the bike cuts out put more fuel in as was a little low but when I try to start it turns over a pop comes out the exhaust that's it, could it be a coil?

recently twice it wouldn't start first time and I had to switch off and on to start and when revved it it would rev then drop to almost stalling by not and go back to idle, also it surged a few times in 3/4th at about 40 which it never did before, also has been vibbing from where the timing chain is.

Cheers

F*ck, cam chain snapped.

[Tomor]

Oh bugger. Which bike. The street or bmw??

BMW at beat nearly £1000 worst £4000.

Originally Posted by SUPERSTARDJ01

BMW at beat nearly £1000 worst £4000.

i assume you've got a bmw k1200r,among other problems they suffer from cam chain wearing at lowish miles,some recommend there a service item,with a 25k or so life span,did this one have all the cam chain modes done,should have had a recall for a chain tooth-jump guard and uprated cam chain tensioner,if bmw serviced,and modes not done!,you might have some come back on bmw for damage

22000 miles jump guard but they refused the tensioner, called multiple times asking about the noise showed the noise they said it's normal, no mention of it needing servicing in the manual, they're refusing good will as it's 7yrs old, emailed the ceo's and owner of wollastons, then small claims.

Originally Posted by SUPERSTARDJ01

22000 miles jump guard but they refused the tensioner, called multiple times asking about the noise showed the noise they said it's normal, no mention of it needing servicing in the manual, they're refusing good will as it's 7yrs old, emailed the ceo's and owner of wollastons, then small claims.

how i under stand it, they wont put the newer camchain tensioner on a so called higher milage bike,as they have to start it up several times untill the new tensioner takes up the slack,and on higher mileage engines the camchain is so stretched that it will jump a tooth before the new tensioner starts to work(bear in mind that this is a hydraulic type tensioner)and you wont find it says replace the camchain every so many miles in the service manual,but it a well kept secret that they (bmw)know about,but would have thousands of claims if they admitted to it,basically they cant make a reliable high performance engine to save there lives,but hope nobody finds out,loads about these problems on the net,and if you have reported the noise (camchain rattle) to bmw,then i would say you have grounds to some good will claim against them,as they are only covering there ****,and know full well that this and other problems are down to there poor design,and don't believe them if they tell you this is a very rare occurrence,because it isn't,

Everything you just said is what happened except they denied good will on the grounds of it's age, it's an 05 bike with 22000 on it, how-ever they were on watchdog last year with the same issue for one of their cars and they were giving good will to them and they were the same age as my bike, anyway the bmw garage are in touch with bmw technical to see if the chain was faulty as EVERYONE in bMW has said it should go at 22k and as there is no schedule for it but is in cars says they don't expect them to go, I do how-ever have a case against the garage that sold it to me under the sale of goods act, the garage are doing a report for me and then I'll claim.

[jambo]

I honestly thought we'd left 20,000 mile cam chain issues behind us in the 80's. These things really aren't consumables. Sorry for the issues you're having and good luck with the garage.

Jambo

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