BMW R 1200 GS 2004–2017 — technical service bulletin
Bulletin MC59279648 · NHTSA communication 10148061 · issued Sep 1, 2014
Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2004–2017
model years
32
vehicle entries
Official summary
Retrofitting the Switching Assistant Pro. The ESA coding procedure fails when retrofitting the Switching Assistant Pro.
Vehicles covered
- 2005 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2006 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2007 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2008 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2009 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2010 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2011 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2013 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2014 BMW R 1200 GS
- 2005 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2006 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2007 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2008 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2009 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2010 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2011 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2017 BMW R 1200 GS Adventure
- 2004 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2005 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2006 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2007 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2008 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2009 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2010 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2011 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2015 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2016 BMW R 1200 RT
- 2005 BMW R 1200 RT (authority)
- 2006 BMW R 1200 RT (authority)
- 2007 BMW R 1200 RT (authority)
- 2008 BMW R 1200 RT (authority)
- 2009 BMW R 1200 RT (authority)
What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.