Recall Register

BMW K1200 R: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the BMW K1200 R, model years 2003 to 2008. NHTSA has 20 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 6 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. 20030
  2. 20041
  3. 20053
  4. 20064
  5. 20075
  6. 20083
BMW K1200 R: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 BMW K1200 R300%31,235
2007 BMW K1200 R5390%38,294
2006 BMW K1200 R414420%48,583
2005 BMW K1200 R3130%35,383
2004 BMW K1200 R NHTSA page100%6,631
2003 BMW K1200 R NHTSA page0260%

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

21 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 K1200 R: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Fuel/Propulsion System3818
Power Train285.76
Service Brakes, Hydraulic142.93
Service Brakes47.61
Fuel System, Gasoline47.61
Service Brakes, Air47.61
Electrical System47.61

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW K1200 R, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2006, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the BMW K1200 R, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2012, with 7 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 252 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW K1200 R: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/k1200-r/. 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 K1200 R model years have the most recall campaigns?
2007 with 5, 2006 with 4, 2008 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW K1200 R model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 model year, with 14 of the 20 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW K1200 R name?
Fuel/Propulsion System: 8 component mentions. Power Train: 6 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 3 component mentions.