2012 BMW K 1600 GTL Fuel system Problems

“When motorcycle is turned on, gas starts gushing out. I researched the issue with my year/make/model and there has been multiple complaints from others about the exact same thing occurring. Motorcycle was stationary on it's side-stand.”

“After returning from a ride, I noticed a fuel smell. I located drops of fuel beneath the bike and began to trace the liquid to it's source. The source was a cracked fuel pump flange where a threaded fitting was installed. Bmw issued a recall on 2012 k1600 gtls, but did not include my VIN. Bmw customer service claimed my bike was produced two months after the recall cut off date. My bike experienced the same leak as described in their recall. This was verified by the local Bmw dealer, ridenow in chandler arizona per the request of Bmw. …”

“This bike leaks the pressureized gasoline from the fuel pump flange spraying the gasoline on top of the engien and leaking down to area of exhaust pipes causing very huge change of fire. We found the recall number 13v-617 for this particular problem from NHTSA:s website but nobody from Bmw or hhtsa conforms that this recall is implemented. Nobody knows anything about it. The bike is imopareble now and causes huge risk if operated in the condition it is now. Could you please tell if and when above recall happens? Can we be compensated if we fix the bike by ourselves. …”

“On turning on the ignition key in my garage, the fuel pump was audible, and the bike failed to start when the starter button was pressed. Immediately I noticed a very large torrent of gasoline pouring out of the bottom of the engine, right over the exhaust headers, which were fortunately not yet hot. The amount of gasoline lost was around 1 liter, before I realized what was happening, and turned off the ignition key. Fortunately, no fire resulted as I rolled the bike out of the pool of gasoline and on out of the garage. …”

“Strong scent of fuel odor. Plastic elbow connectors is the culprit . This is the 2nd time this bike went in for Fuel leak problem. 1st time it went in the Bmw service bike was at 19,500 miles went in for fuel leak recall. They said they fixed it but 300+ miles later at 19,800 miles it started a fuel leak again. This time bmw charge me to fix the fuel leak issue. Should have been part of the fuel leak recall issue.”