This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
Picked up from a stop light no aggressive but normally and a few seconds after going around 20-30ish mph the car stalls and goes into neutral. I was really confused and panicking of what happened, the cars behind me almost crashed into me and I was trying to manage to pull the car over to the side of road and thankfully I did. This could have caused a serious injury to me and others. As I was able to pull off to the side of the road I try to start my car back up and it cranks and cranks for a few seconds which it normally never does and finally when it starts back up the car just starts miss firing like crazy and the check engine light comes on and the car is throwing codes all over the place like drive train malfunction, engine malfunction, low oil pressure, check engine oil, auto stop start malfunction. I was super confused so I shut it off and tried to start it again but it didn-??t help at all. I drove slowly into a parking lot and got it towed to a independent repair shop to which they diagnosed the timing chain guides breaking and falling into the oil pump, clogging the oil pump then causing further damage due to no oil going to the top of the motor. I was very confused how all of this could have happened since I took care of my car. If the car had given me a service warning light I would have went and got my engine serviced for this job. Now The thing is these timing chain jobs aren-??t cheap and replacing the oil pump chain is even more expensive since it requires lowering the sub frame. Now In my case the timing was so bad to where the engine did something to the cylinders as of what my mechanic said. So my engine is toast and I need a new engine. Car has a hunk of metal parked in my driveway now that I-??m still paying off. Good job BMW. I really want to sue bmw for this bs. The car is poorly designed and I-??m super thankful this issue did not occur on the freeway because I could have died. I looked into the bmw warranty and it-??s only covering up to 100K.
Early 528I, F10 models have factory software glitch that improperly set front brake mileage to an erroneous 3100 miles when reset after front brake replacement. BMW does not take ownership of software issue and places software upgrade cost on customer through dealership. Issue does not arise until after warranty has expired. Customers that refuse to pay for cost of BMW software malfunction continuously hit the reset option for front brakes which consistently reset to an erroneous mileage of 3100 miles. This continuous erroneous reset approach does not allow for proper brake wear assessment based on mileage and leads to loss of awareness on front brake pads replacement which can cause accidents due to loss of front brakes. My wife kept hitting the reset option to remove the erroneous alarm so often that she actually was driving with extremely low pads and almost got into an accident on the highway. This is not safe and BMW should cover factory software upgrade since customers do not have the capability to alter or upgrade software on the vehicles.
Warning for chassis stabilization is on, I encountered not being able to accelerate and had the car towed. I was on a main road and I got rear ended immediately after I was not able to accelerate and I had my hazard lights flashing
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- Vallejo, CA, USA