We were driving our bmw 328d xdrive wagon and accelerating straight to enter the interstate when there was loss of all drive power and the engine began to rev high. No error messages activated. We were fortunate to be able to drift out off traffic as no other cars were coming close. Vehicle was towed to dealership and determined to be defective transfer case.
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11.3.17 car caught on fire while driving. Total loss. Car lost power. Message was displayed "drivetrain malfunction, drive cautiously" pulled to side of highway, car was engulphed in flames within 5 minutes.
Going about 60mph, my car completely loses power and shuts down. Power train malfunction loss of power flash on the screen. Ive had the car for 20 days, and at 52000 miles. 2000 over my warranty. Bmw is auotibg ne $5,000 to fix the high pressure fuel pump and system, fuel rail sensor, and fuel rail pressure valve which all ultimately work together. But bmw has already recalled all other 2014 328 models for the exact same fuel pump problems im having except the 328d model was the only one left out????! Bmw makes very few of these models to begin with, so naturally there arent going to ve as many complaints with the 328d if there are fewer produced. Its common sense. Looking through the complaints on safecar.gov 98% of the complaints on the car ultimately come to some sort of fuel system failure causing loss of power and total shut down. At 60 MPH and 2 babies in my back seat it was more than scary. Im disgusted with bmw leaving out and not recalling the 328d when they did all the others. I mean what does it take to get some answers around here on this when there are multiple upon multiple complaints?? I mean I got on my phone immediately and diagnosed the problem before sos even came on my speakers just off of the terrible reviews and complaints people are saying off the internet alone! The bmw service center also told me all of that exact year and model that they have had in there lately have been due to the same issue!! This is a cost I cannot even afford at the moment, especially for a vehicle 2000 miles out of warranty. And is basically a brand new car and to already be faulty?? I'm afraid to even drive it again once it does get fixed, being that they are replacing the parts that just failed!! With the exact same parts?!!! What to just fail again, and take the chance of next time on a busy road when it shuts down,actually having a collison with a vehicle instead?!
Vehicle has on 4 separate occurrences stalled/failed to accelerate. "drivetrain malfunction" error code is displayed. The vehicle had 11564 miles on the odometer at the first occurrence. The faults were cleared, but because they could not replicate the failure, no action was taken. The second occurrence, 6 months and 9000 miles later, a sensor was replaced, faults cleared, no further action taken. The third time, six weeks later, a fuel quantity control valve was replaced. The car has just been towed for a fourth time. On 3 of the 4 occurrences, the car was on a highway or busy street, at one time traveling in excess of 60 MPH. The last time was turning onto a busy highway, narrowly avoiding an accident. The first time was on a downtown city block, stalling in an intersection at low speed.
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