# Service bulletin SB\-31\-002\-08

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10030771
- Published by NHTSA: 2009\-12\-01
- Manufacturer's number: SB\-31\-002\-08
- Manufacturer's date: 2008\-07\-01
- NHTSA component: STEERING

## NHTSA's summary

BMW MOTORCYCLE: REPLACING STEERING DAMPER. THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF THE COATING BECOMING DETACHED FROM THE INSIDE FACE OF THE CYLINDER. THIS DETACHED COATING COULD PARTIALLY CLOG THE OIL BORES, WITH THE RESULT THAT THE ACTION OF THE STEERING DAMPER COULD BECOME STIFF. NO MODEL YEARS LISTED. \*PE

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Steering

## Vehicles listed

- 2008 BMW F 800 ST
- 2008 BMW F800 S
- 2008 BMW K1200 GT
- 2008 BMW K1200 R
- 2008 BMW K1200 R SPORT
- 2008 BMW K1200 S
- 2009 BMW R 1200 R US
- 2008 BMW R1200 R

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [23\-001\-08\(021\)](/bulletins/10026304.md), 2008-10-17, Service bulletin: STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT PITMAN; STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\); STEERING:GEAR BOX:SHAFT SECTOR. BMW MOTORCYCLE: GEARBOX REPLACEMENT. ON ACCOUNT OF A MATERIAL DEFECT, THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF A SMALL NUMBER \(46\) MOTORCYCLES MANUFACTURED TO DATE SUFFERING A GEARBOX MALFUNCTION THAT WOULD RESULT IN A ROADSIDE BREAKDOWN. \*PE
- [US 14253849\-01](/bulletins/10026225.md), 2008-10-08, Service bulletin: STEERING: STEERING WHEEL/HANDLE BAR; TIRES. BMW MOTORCYCLES: ABRUPT CORNER HANDLING. WHEN CORNERING \(E.G. TURNING OFF\) AT UP TO 13MPH, THE MOTOR CYCLE TENDS TO LEAN INTO THE BEND. \*PE

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