BMW C1 (2001) [3/458] Preface

Preface

This Repair Manual is intended to assist you in performing all essential maintenance and repair operations

to a professional standard. In its role as a reference source for service personnel, it supplements and ex-

pands upon the theoretical and hands-on instruction provided at our training centres to enhance the quality

of our service.

A new edition of this manual will be issued in response to required revisions or the need to incorporate ad-

ditional information (supplements).

The illustrations and descriptions contained in this manual apply exclusively to standard, unmodified BMW

Motorcycles and/or BMW Motorcycles equipped with factory-approved BMW accessories and options.

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The Repair Manual's structure reflects the logical sequence in which the operations it describes will be

performed: removal, dismantling, repairs, assembly and installation.

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The individual chapters in this manual correspond to the motorcycle's individual assembly groups.

A reference arrow with chapter and page calls your attention to additional information contained in another

section of the manual.

e.g. a ................ Refer to Assembly Group 46

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Group "00" describes the operations carried out in the course of each Inspection. The various inspec-

tion routines are numbered I, II, III and IV. To help in maintaining a continuous, logical work sequence,

these same numerical designations are employed to identify the subsequent sections describing the ac-

tual repair operations.

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Use of the BMW special tools needed for certain operations is described in the work instructions.

When the need arises, repair instructions are also issued in the form of Service Information Bulletins. This

information is then incorporated into subsequent editions of the repair manual. We also recommend the

lavishly illustrated Electronic Parts Catalogue as a supplementary source of information.

When individual steps within an overall operation only apply to motorcycles with specific accessories or

optional equipment, the options to which the steps refer are identified by brackets at the start of the line,

such as

[with heated grips]

Please devote your careful attention to the following pages with their explanations describing the symbols

used in the manual and their significance.

BMW Motorrad

After Sales

Published by BMW Motorrad

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written permission.

We reserve the right to introduce technical modifications at any time. Errors and omissions excepted.

Printed in Germany

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