I haven’t had good luck with the local BMW dealers since they tend to treat me like I’m a stupid female — tell me I want the wrong motorcycle, ask me when I’m buying parts who is doing the work for me and scoff at me when I tell them I’m doing the work myself.
My F650 has about 40,000 miles on it and I have a bad water pump and radiator fan right now.
The water pump is a known failure on the F650 suspected to be caused by the low quality of BMW coolant and solved in the future by using Honda coolant. Evidently the BMW coolant gets gritty as it deteriorates and breaks down the rubber seals on the water pump impeller shaft that seal off the coolant and oil so they don’t get to meet each other.
The radiator fan is a mystery. I looks likes something dropped down into it so the fan blades dragged across it and ruined the fan. Who knows.
Both should be covered by my extended warranty I bought prior to leaving on the Canada trip.
I took the motorcycle in today to the Fort Worth dealership and was really impressed with Stacy Smith the service manager. I really nice young man who didn’t make one negative remark to me as a female rider and treated me like I actually knew what I was talking about. What a nice change.
I went to the parts counter and ordered a couple of small parts and was treated with courtesy by the good natured man behind the counter.
I’ll post more as I find out more…
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