Recall Register

BMW R 1250 GS: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the BMW R 1250 GS, model years 2019 to 2023. NHTSA has 29 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 5 model years have a page on this register.

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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. 20193
  2. 20205
  3. 20212
  4. 20221
  5. 20231
BMW R 1250 GS: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2023 BMW R 1250 GS NHTSA page1234%18,534
2022 BMW R 1250 GS NHTSA page1352%18,534
2021 BMW R 1250 GS2117%18,981
2020 BMW R 1250 GS58138%32,321
2019 BMW R 1250 GS315259%28,291

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

40 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 R 1250 GS: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Service Brakes47519
Electrical System1004
Engine1004
Service Brakes, Hydraulic753
Unknown or Other753
Power Train502
Vehicle Speed Control251
Forward Collision Avoidance251
Exterior Lighting251
Fuel/Propulsion System251

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW R 1250 GS, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2020, with 5 campaigns.
Complaints about the BMW R 1250 GS, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2020, with 8 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 252 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW R 1250 GS: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/r-1250-gs/. 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 R 1250 GS model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 5, 2019 with 3, 2021 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW R 1250 GS model year has the most complaints?
The 2019 model year, with 15 of the 29 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW R 1250 GS name?
Service Brakes: 19 component mentions. Electrical System: 4 component mentions. Engine: 4 component mentions.