Sharpee Dots

[kentuvman]

Some of you know I picked up an '87 K75S and wasn't sure about the maintenance history. As I've gone thru changing fluids, draining and replacing anti-freeze, spline lube, brake bleed, checked & cleaned air filter I felt reassured seeing green dots by the drain plugs, air cleaner, shocks, steering head and brake bleeds.

I've never seen sharpee marks on my F650 when it was serviced at the BMW or Independent dealer- is there a "code or legend" behind this? To me it just gave me the peace of mind knowing that someone was taking good care of the bike.

I'm very grateful to all of you who have provided me with so much valuable information on how to properly wrench the bike.

I've got a progressive 420 shock on order that fits my current budget and plan to drain & fill the front fork tubes with Honda 10W oil.

I'm still waiting on my "C" bars and heated grips from Bob's and hopefully will get some riding in before old man winter sets in.

I bought a new fuel filter but the one in the tank looks pretty new - should I just keep it in and hang on to the new one in case the exisiting one fails?

Special thanks to Gil in Florida for really going above and beyond to introduce himself as a fellow BMW enthusiast and photographer!!!

KT:bikes

[roy]

HI KT,
not sure if the dots are the same but on my 85K100 there was green dots on most of the major fasteners and plugs. I speculated that these where inspection ID marks to show that these fasteners had been torqued and checked at the factory.

I will be curious to see if I guessed correctly or if I am out in left field again.

Roy

[kentuvman]

Hey Roy - I was thinking again (danger, danger)

Maybe the green dots are done at the BMW dealer when a bike is uncrated and inspected and then reviewed with the new owner? That sounds like a good theory.

[PHMarvin]

Hi,
I was told that the green dots (going back on all the BMW's I have bought, starting with my first, a '76 R90/6 bought new in April, 1977) were put on by the Quality Inspector after checking that the torque was correct on that particular fastener.