FreudianSlip
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As most of you guys will have done, I got the bike out whilst the sun shined recently (seems like months ago already) and noticed on my last day of play time that it was running a bit rough.. Vibrations at under 5k revs, hesitation when accelerating and (the only way I can describe it) the feeling that it was running on 2 star petrol...
Once it was spinning, it was it's usual blistering self, but anything less than 'full' just felt dirty.
I bought the bike brand new in September 2017 and it's done about 9k miles with a service at 6k. Nobody else (other than the BMW technicians) have ridden the bike and with that same exception, it's never been out of my possession.
The selling dealership picked the bike up on Monday (which I still think is a brilliant service) and have called today to tell me the problems.
Firstly I'm glad they found something - 'cos that means I wasn't imagining it, but more worry for me is the problems they found.
All 8 injectors (yes, all 8!) had fault codes registered against them - something that has never, in the history of planet earth, ever happened without a power commander being fitted (according to the BMW master technician) and the exhaust flap thing had a further 3 codes logged against it. They've cleared the injector codes and they haven't returned but the exhaust ones are permanent, therefore they're fixing whatever is wrong with the exhaust under warranty (is that the noisy rattle thing on startup?)
My concern here is that BMW think that I've had a PC on there, and I can 100% guarantee that I've never even considered putting one on, never mind actually done it. I am worried that if the fault codes come back again later, they'll try to dodge the problem by using the PC excuse. Now I'm no mechanic, nor am I stupid enough to tamper with something as powerful and wonderful to ride as the RR without knowing exactly what to do, but trying to use that as certification to BMW against a PC being fitted probably won't work.
I've asked them to somehow seal the electronics - just so that it'd be evident if a PC had been fitted - and if the seal was intact, then any faults on injectors should be investigated further without grilling me and challenging my honesty.
Is there anything else that could raise fault alerts on all injectors except a PC that I could pass onto the BMW guys?
The bike should be back with me next week so I'm looking forward to getting some more miles in (possibly with a quick flirt over to France before the world ends) but I'd like not to be worrying about injectors, codes and warranties.
Once it was spinning, it was it's usual blistering self, but anything less than 'full' just felt dirty.
I bought the bike brand new in September 2017 and it's done about 9k miles with a service at 6k. Nobody else (other than the BMW technicians) have ridden the bike and with that same exception, it's never been out of my possession.
The selling dealership picked the bike up on Monday (which I still think is a brilliant service) and have called today to tell me the problems.
Firstly I'm glad they found something - 'cos that means I wasn't imagining it, but more worry for me is the problems they found.
All 8 injectors (yes, all 8!) had fault codes registered against them - something that has never, in the history of planet earth, ever happened without a power commander being fitted (according to the BMW master technician) and the exhaust flap thing had a further 3 codes logged against it. They've cleared the injector codes and they haven't returned but the exhaust ones are permanent, therefore they're fixing whatever is wrong with the exhaust under warranty (is that the noisy rattle thing on startup?)
My concern here is that BMW think that I've had a PC on there, and I can 100% guarantee that I've never even considered putting one on, never mind actually done it. I am worried that if the fault codes come back again later, they'll try to dodge the problem by using the PC excuse. Now I'm no mechanic, nor am I stupid enough to tamper with something as powerful and wonderful to ride as the RR without knowing exactly what to do, but trying to use that as certification to BMW against a PC being fitted probably won't work.
I've asked them to somehow seal the electronics - just so that it'd be evident if a PC had been fitted - and if the seal was intact, then any faults on injectors should be investigated further without grilling me and challenging my honesty.
Is there anything else that could raise fault alerts on all injectors except a PC that I could pass onto the BMW guys?
The bike should be back with me next week so I'm looking forward to getting some more miles in (possibly with a quick flirt over to France before the world ends) but I'd like not to be worrying about injectors, codes and warranties.
no loaner - I did ask the question, but they denied availability ..gits 
