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Thanks to all that offered help. The problem turned out to be a known to BMW problem that they have chosen not to send out a alert to anyone on. It is the electric switch that turns the pump on and off. It seems if it gets wet it corrodes and will stop working. The fix is to replace it with a new one that the dealer in Mendoza did not have. They did know about the problem and how to by- pass the switch. I talked to Danial Novaco the sales manager I think he is. He spoke very good english so they took me direct to him. He was very confident that that was the problem and I have ridden it about 550 miles now and not a bit of probelm. It sure is great to be back on the road and know that the problem is not going to be back. I can not believe that BMW has known about this problem and has not had a recall on it. When you buy the best bike that you can that is supposed to be built for world travel and it has a $10 part that is known to stop the bike dead in the water I can not believe that they did not recall it. When it stopped it stopped dead and you could be killed by cars behind you. I am certainly going to be following up with them when I return to the USA as I spent $640 dollars getting the biked hauled 3 times and spent about 5 hours tearing the gas tank and fuel pump off and dumping the fuel 3 times to try to get it going out in the middle of no where. All three times that I had to get it hauled could have been life threatening because of the time and the area. I think I ended up hauling the bike close to 400 miles total. Oh well we live and learn. Again thanks for you help.
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Larry Davis
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