Recall Register

BMW K 1600 GTL: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the BMW K 1600 GTL, model years 2011 to 2025. NHTSA has 72 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 15 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20111
  2. 20124
  3. 20131
  4. 20141
  5. 20150
  6. 20160
  7. 20171
  8. 20182
  9. 20193
  10. 20203
  11. 20211
  12. 20221
  13. 20231
  14. 20242
  15. 20251
BMW K 1600 GTL: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2025 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page100%9,160
2024 BMW K 1600 GTL200%9,351
2023 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page100%9,160
2022 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page1121%9,160
2021 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page1121%9,160
2020 BMW K 1600 GTL300%18,895
2019 BMW K 1600 GTL3363%18,895
2018 BMW K 1600 GTL216333%13,832
2017 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page100%9,160
2016 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page0363%
2015 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page0121%
2014 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page17146%20,963
2013 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page17146%20,963
2012 BMW K 1600 GTL433688%90,548
2011 BMW K 1600 GTL NHTSA page100%20,963

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

94 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

BMW K 1600 GTL: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering191.518
Fuel/Propulsion System148.914
Power Train127.712
Electrical System11711
Engine95.79
Fuel System, Gasoline63.86
Suspension53.25
Unknown or Other53.25
Vehicle Speed Control42.64
Exterior Lighting42.64

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW K 1600 GTL, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2013, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the BMW K 1600 GTL, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2013, with 13 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 252 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW K 1600 GTL: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/k-1600-gtl/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
BMW of North America, LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which BMW K 1600 GTL model years have the most recall campaigns?
2012 with 4, 2020 with 3, 2019 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW K 1600 GTL model year has the most complaints?
The 2012 model year, with 33 of the 72 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW K 1600 GTL name?
Steering: 191.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Fuel/Propulsion System: 148.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 127.7 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the BMW K 1600 GTL?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.