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Originally Posted by smoky126
regarding my 2010 1200 GS. Is this tool able to help me and if so how?
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It will read the diagnostics for the bike: via the CANbus system built into the machine.
They can also cancel fault signals kept in the "computer brain" of the bike.
Whether you value this, or not, is a value judgement to be made by you.
For instance:
BMW nowadays keep all of their service records on a centralised computer database (some say kept in Berlin).
Many car manufs are doing the same - you don't get a paper based service handbook with new vehicles, just a computer printout of the centralised records, if you ask for it.
Anyway, this may be a contributory reason why independent service centres for BMW bikes in particular have come into being here in the UK. There is virtually one per county/regional area in the UK nowadays to cater for those who don't feel the need to be on a central database (there again, perhaps the work carried out by the independents ends up on the BMW central records?).
A lot of the independents - perhaps all of them - have computer based diagnostics and there are adverts here in the UK for people who will read the diagnostics of a Beemer for the price of a few  tokens.
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Dave
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