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K1600GT - ESA - Hall Effect Sensor Error

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RoyF:
Hi Schuppi,

Latest is that I have the bike booked into my local BMW dealer on the 15th of September. I have asked them to:-

1) - Run their BMW diagnosis, see if that gives me anything new.
2) - Update all the bike S/W / F/W as needed.   
3) - Reflash the ESA F/W.
4) - Re-calibrate the rear ESA unit if it comes back to life. 

In that order as a guess. Like you, I'm 99% certain the sensor has gone, but this could be worth an outside shot at getting it working again.

I'll let you know the outcome from my visit a week on Tuesday, but in preparation, I have already requested through a couple of forum's if anyone has an old ESA unit somewhere I can get a sensor out of....... From BMW, I can only get a new unit complete at a new price is £1,600 ($2.5k) !! :( 

schuppi:
Hello Roy,
that are bad news.
I never had such a unit in my hands to disassemble it. Dont know if there is a way to change the hall-sensor :(

All the best to you

2wheeler:
Hello RoyF
Think You own os to tell the end of story regarding to your ESA problems.

RoyF:
The end result was that BMW said that there was a communications error reading rear ESA unit, they offered to investigate the wiring to the shock, but as I had already confirmed as far as I could that the sensor in the rear shock had gone open circuit, then checking the wiring to the unit was a pointless exercise..... The good news for me was that the dealer put in a goodwill claim with BMW, even though it was out of warranty, but with a full BMW service historay and added to that I also have an R1200GSA purchased new from the same dealer, then this added some weight and I paid 20% towards the cost of the new part. They replaced the shock and all has been well since, so never did have the chance to rip the old unit apart and try and fix the sensor.
 

2wheeler:
Congratulation  :)

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