Bmw K 1600 B, Bmw K 1600 Grand America, Bmw K 1600 Gt, Bmw K 1600 Gtl, model years 2017 to 2025. Filed by BMW of North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 2 April 2026. 9,160 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2017-2025 K 1600 GT, GTL, B and 2018-2025 Grand America vehicles. The seal for the reverse gear control unit may deteriorate and allow moisture inside the control unit, which can result in the unit overheating.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 26V214 cover?
- BMW K 1600 B, BMW K 1600 Grand America, BMW K 1600 GT, BMW K 1600 GTL, model years 2017-2025.
- What is wrong with them?
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2017-2025 K 1600 GT, GTL, B and 2018-2025 Grand America vehicles. The seal for the reverse gear control unit may deteriorate and allow moisture inside the control unit, which can result in the unit overheating.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An overheated reverse gear control unit increases the risk of a fire.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Not yet, on the wording NHTSA publishes today. Dealers will replace the reverse gear control unit, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk were mailed May 28, 2026. A second letter will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An overheated reverse gear control unit increases the risk of a fire.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V214 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | BMW of North America, LLC |
| System at fault | Power Train:Manual Transmission:Seals/Gaskets |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 April 2026 |
| Model years | 2017-2025 |
| Vehicles named | BMW K 1600 B, BMW K 1600 GRAND AMERICA, BMW K 1600 GT, BMW K 1600 GTL |
What the notice says today
The defect
BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2017-2025 K 1600 GT, GTL, B and 2018-2025 Grand America vehicles. The seal for the reverse gear control unit may deteriorate and allow moisture inside the control unit, which can result in the unit overheating.
The consequence
An overheated reverse gear control unit increases the risk of a fire.
The remedy
Dealers will replace the reverse gear control unit, free of charge. Letters informing owners of the safety risk were mailed May 28, 2026. A second letter will be mailed once the remedy is available. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning May 25, 2026.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to bf422a52a1993b7a7e51d00ffb86bf9d…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 816 notices in the record whose component field names power train. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 42 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- BMW K 1600 B recalls: 3 US campaigns
- BMW K 1600 GT recalls: 9 US campaigns
- BMW K 1600 GTL recalls: 8 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V214, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v214/
The copy quoted above hashes to bf422a52a1993b7a7e51d00ffb86bf9d…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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- 26V064: 2026 228i Gran Coupe, 228i xDrive Gran Coupe, and M235i xDrive Gran Coupe
All 328 BMW campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 26V214 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
5dffe1e0 - Consequence
76a4865c - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
The wording we hold for 26V214 · how the whole register is watched
168 days after this was filed with the regulator, the register still carries no date for the letter to owners. The sixty days 49 CFR 577.7 allows have passed. A blank there is a gap in the record, which is not the same as a gap in the post: where this maker stands on the sixty days.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the BMW K 1600 GTL, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
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