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BMW K75

Every BMW K75 model year on file, 1986 to 1987. Pick a year for its recalls, investigations, service bulletins and the full text of owner complaints.

Owner complaints, all model years10 involved a crash, fire, injury or death

Model years21986 to 1987

Recall campaigns2Distinct campaigns listing it

Service bulletins2Summed across model years

By model year

The 1986 model year drew the most complaints, 1, 100% of the model's total

Owner complaints filed with NHTSA, all years filed, by model year.

Source: NHTSA ODI. Complaints are not verified by NHTSA, and NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so counts are not rates.

Components

Speed control leads the BMW K75 complaint record

Owner complaints across all model years, by component.

Speed control

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.

Model years

The record for each BMW K75 model year

Peer index compares complaints with the median vehicle of the same model year and body class (100 is the median). It corrects for age, not for how many were sold.

BMW K75 by model year
Year	Body	Complaints	Severity index	Peer index	Recalls	Investigations	Bulletins
1987	Not decoded	0	None	None	1	0	1
1986	Motorcycle	1	0.0	100	2	0	1

Source: NHTSA ODI. Body class from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.

Latest recalls

Recent campaigns covering the BMW K75

87V-193 Dec 18, 1987
Lower part of spring/damper unit eyelet, which attaches to the rear drive unit, could crack
Suspension · 4,687 vehicles
86V-080 Jun 20, 1986
Throttle cable may have been damaged during installation resulting in a bend or a kink or chafing and fraying of the braided wire cable
Speed control · 9,712 vehicles

Source: NHTSA ODI recalls file.