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The seat is always making a noise that I have to put the seat belt for the passenger side even though there is no one beside me and since 2014 I have a problem with the time chain I was waiting for a recall that BMW North America and no one called
On 7/10/2020 vehicle was backed in and parked in driveway on a slight incline. We had a heavy rainfall (its storm season) next morning went to get in car, there was 2 to 3 inches of water on the driver and passenger floorboard moon roof closed, windows up. Water seemed to be dripping from under the dashboard. Checked vents under hood, clear. Cleaned it all up and dry vacuumed. Today, 7/15/2020 another round of heavy rainfall...car parked in driveway on slight slope, all closed up. Checked after rain stopped, on passenger side 2 inches of rain, driver side 1 inch of rain. Drips appeared to be coming out of passenger visor mirror. Immediately dried it up with towels. No access to neighbors dry vac today (they are out of town). I have already had to replace the seal around the windshield once and I believe it is possibly the seal again. Have not gone to dealership yet, I am busy with a funeral in the family. I see I could have sent a photo, I was unaware until I researched possible recalls of this website.
BMW refused to recalls 2012 to 2014 vehicles with faulty timing chains, oil chain, and tensioner. When I contacted BMW they stated it was only covered to 70,000 miles. I purchased a 120,000 miles warranty, I was never informed by BMW West the service center about this recall. At a 120,000 miles took my car into be serviced and was told the timing chain, oil chain and tensioner needed to be replaced at the cost of $4,400, if the the chain had came off of the tensioner and ruin it motor that could be from $12,000 to $22,000. So many are experiencing the same problem. My car has been sitting for 6 months unable to drive it due to the danger. Car makes I high pitch whining sound and jumps out of gear, check engine light states on.
Interior doors handle, melts when its 80 degrees inside the car, it leaves a sticky film on the hand. It doesn't matter if its stationary, in motion or not. As long as its hot inside
My car was parked I started it ran back in house to get phone got in car smelt plastic but it wasn't coming from vent got out car to smell around car and when I got to trunk the smell was louder opened trunk and a small fire came up like a barbecue fire on the passenger side a man rode by in a truck and help put it out the wasn't drove since 12:00 P.M the day before I ran in my front door grabbed phone and that fast but the guy said it looks like the wires were burning previously because I had a burn stain on my exterior white paint.
- Norcross, GA, USA
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I would like to report that my 2012 328xi BMW caught on fire Sunday morning at 0315 as I stopped for coffee. My car was parked and turned off and when I returned after 3 minutes or so my car was smoking and a few minutes after that engulfed in flames. I know there were issues with mysterious fires and I want to report that I am one of them.
Recently my girlfriend and I had purchased and financed a 2012 BMW 328I. The mileage when we bought the car was at 48,000. Withen the first 2 weeks of having the car I had to bring it back due to the parking lamp being out. I didn't get no warning from the car that the light was out either. I brought it in they corrected the problem for the time being and I went on my way. The same exact parking lamp went out another few weeks later. We have only had the car 3 months and it is having problems with the engine and saying that I have driven a lot more miles than I actually have. The odometer is now reading 60,000 miles. Basically saying I had driven over 13,000 miles in close to 3 months time. There is no way I could of driven 13,000 miles in that short of time when I only use the car to go to work which is 20 miles away. The car broke down on me and the odometer is definently faulty. I know electrical problems when I see them. The car is unsafe to drive prior to breaking down. Engine shaked violently and made hissing sounds after releasing the gas.
Water leaking into driver side of car and pooling in driver footwell and driver-side passenger. When parked on slope, nearly 3-4 inches of standing water. After pumping and drying out water, major rain storm resulted in return of pooling water. Possibly related to BMW service bulletin: Sib 51 05 14 it says "remove water drain grommet of units compartment"
Vanos bolt failure. 4 vanos bolt broken. Car stalled while driving. The car was driving on a city street while turning. No power at all. It is a 2011 328I.
Sudden complete loss of power while underway on interstate 476 North of philadelphia. Car stopped in the middle of 4 lanes of high speed traffic at 4:10 pm.it would not restart. There was no warning of an issue prior. I am sole operator of car. Car was in dealers shop for 7 days. No obvious cause found, but Bosch coils replaced as a precaution. 300 miles later on May 26, at approx 5:20 pm the car again w/O warning had sudden complete loss of power; would not restart.
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- Dallas, TX, USA