Is it worth anything?

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:00 pm

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Or should I bin it? It's the ABS thingy I took off my bike when the back brake started to 'play up'. Your advise gentlemen please.

Nick.

slparry · Post by **slparry** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:10 pm

shove it on ebay Nick, can't do any harm

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:02 pm

Cheers Steve. I seem to remember reading that people do actually buy them even though they are faulty(?). Can't imagine why. They look like they'd be really complicated to fix.

bikesnbones · Post by **bikesnbones** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:12 pm

Although BMW say otherwise, these ABS units are rebuildable.
I did the one in my R1200C, which is the previous generation ABS.
The plunger had seized.
Quite straightforoward.

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:26 pm

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Cheers mate. I'm half inclined to pull it apart meself just out of idle curiosity as to how it works and why it, (if, indeed it did) failed .

bikesnbones · Post by **bikesnbones** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 7:10 pm

el-nicko wrote:.

Cheers mate. I'm half inclined to pull it apart meself just out of idle curiosity as to how it works and why it, (if, indeed it did) failed .

Did you not read, or have the fault code read before removing it

el-nicko · Post by **el-nicko** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 8:27 pm

'fraid not.

bikesnbones · Post by **bikesnbones** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 2:34 am

el-nicko wrote:'fraid not.

I don't know if it can be read with the unit out.
It would have been handy to have had the fault code read.
If it's an electical problem, you're probably stuffed but if like mine, it's mechanical, then you're in with a chance.