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.
I had just started driving, had turned the driver front seat heater to low, and only went about half a mile when I felt a burning sensation under left buttock/thigh area. Turned off seat heater quickly and pulled over - leather was puckered and discolored in one concentrated spot. It is apparent if it was left on for any length of time it would have burned right through and possibly caused a fire or injury.
While driving down the road in the morning, I had the driver seat heater on and felt it get very hot on one spot on the left side of the seat. It was so hot that it hurt and I turned it right off. I noticed this a week before also. The next night we went out and I looked down at the driver seat and there was an actual hole that was burned right through the leather!
Left side of heated drivers side seat got really hot while driving and burned the leather on the seat and also my left leg. Leg felt extremely hot and I smelt something burning so I immediately pulled over and turned car off. When I got out of the vehicle the seat was smoking in the area of the burn. I plan to take this car into fields BMW of northbrook, il (where I purchased the vehicle) to determine how they plan to fix this defect.
My 2004 BMW X3 has heated seats which burned a hole through the seat and almost burned a hole through my pants. I was driving and almost wrecked from the pain. After I pulled over and jumped out I saw a burn in the seat that looked like a cigarette burn. BMW wants to make $700 to replace the heater and another $700 to replace the leather. Took it to charleston, SC dealership.
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- Gettysburg, PA, USA