Pinion Seal leaking and BMW quality

[black99S]

Took the rear wheel off last night to replace the tyre (small nail small leak Pilot road only 30% worn damm*t) and found the bolts smelling of Hypoid. Further inspection and Leak is from bottom rear of the boot.

Dealer says pinion seal - 2.5 hours labour. Anything else to look at whilst the back stump is pulled? Is this common? Put New rear pads in 1000km ago and everything was dry, so this is failing fast.

Only 28,000km on the '99S which has been regularly dealer serviced and stored in heated garage and so far the failure list is:
Ignition lock siezed - warranty
rear subframe cracked - warranty
Cat baffle loose and rattling - no warranty put on Z-tecknik
Clutch master cylinder 'moist" - $500CDN for parts so left it for now
Pinion seal leaking.
My Yamaha Seca 650 lasted 12 years 50,000 miles with only the mufflers rotting off - twice. What about this BMW quality??

[stempy]

You want a nice Honda you do

[Jason M]

That seal went on mine recently - I'm not sure but I think it leaked quite a bit quite quickly and my crown bearing and tapered roller went tits up at the same time so they may have run dry - when I let the oil (well, lubricated chaff more like) out, there certianly wasn't much oil in there anyway - cost me £350 to fix over here. Might be worth getting done PDQ! mine had done over 90k miles though.

I'll be riding my S through Vancouver later this year WHAY HEY - flippin big place as I remember (went through it on the bike afew years ago - remember going over a HUGE bridge as the sun set over the water, then driving past a big F*ck off Canadian flag about 200ft wide and 100ft high on a massive pole)

Hope your luck improves soon

Jason

[Darth_1100S]

These are NOT tales I wish to hear as I'm about to embark on pretty hefty tour of Europe a week on Saturday. Soooo - will you all please keep your tales of things that break, fall off, leak, or just plain wear out to yourselves 'til I've gone!

Itheankyew!

Dave.

[RiceBurner]

28000Kms in five years???

the seal probably dried up!

[beemer screamer]

mine went @ 28000 aswell doddle to fit ten minutes it is just getting the thing back together that is hardest thing (bevel box to swing arm)and if you do it yourself make sure you put the universal joint back on properley with the sirclip thing.