Bosch Performance CX - Please Help With Troubleshooting

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He lives up north somewhere?

halfway between gotenborg and jonkoping, somewhere near a big lake. just realy remote in an onld "farm" house whrere they do not have any city luxuries, so no water from taps, no electrics etc. Heating with a big woodstove to cook on and a windmill and solar with some batteries for a bit of power for a small fridge (they do still use the outdoor cold-hut for sotrage)

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Additional info after having read your earlier post Nik. Bosch E-Bike promises spare e-bike parts up to 7 years post the given generation. With the 1st Gen, your e-bike is very old. A time for change!

I'm for Specialized as the brand has demonstrated an excellent attitude regarding the warranty and the "lifetime frame warranty". Give the brand a try! Note: You need to find a good local bicycle store that will handle your purchase and post-sales care. It is not wise to buy an e-bike online.

 

[Base]

Suburbs of Stockholm here, but I honestly dont own a car, which means anything within biking distance would be preferable. Sadly (for situations like this) its mostly residential areas around here.

bike nation and cykelcity pop up in my mind. (a few years ago besides the BLX also the nordics were my service territory) and there should be a bakfiets expert overt there who does some Bosch service as I recall.

usually a bosch dealer would hook the bike up to the diagnose software and tipically would charge something between 15 to 25 euro for a qwuick inspection/update.

sadly there are not that many shops who service or rework DriveUnits of e-bikes. the closest is in Finland, thats why I suggested to ship them the BDU after contacting them. Might be that they can service the bdu or sell you a reworked version.

btw, Bosch had the Classic bdu, than Gen1, Gen 2 has the different versions whoch also was the cx branded line. Both Classic and Gen 1 had massive issues with water intrusion, hence the sideplate with new bearings and seal which is offerd as spare. later version have less issues with water penetration although this could still occur from either transporting the bikes on a hitch style transportplatform on motorways in a downpoor or using a pressure washer.

 

[Base]

General question though to all of you: do you think that it is worth spending a lot of money on these kinds of repairs / replacements on a bike that is 10 years old? Or should I expect the bike itself to require extensive services in the coming years as well?

Hard to say when I did not have the bike in my hands. You could post some pictures of the bike, with some closeups on parts where you would have doubts on.