SUSPENSION
If the piston rod breaks it will cause loss of stability, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
2 safety recall campaigns, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 8 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
1 campaign covering the 2014 BMW R 1200 RT carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
If the piston rod breaks it will cause loss of stability, increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
A fuel leak, in the presence of an ignition source, may result in a fire.
Two 2014 BMW R 1200 RTs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.