2005 BMW X3 seats complaints

Filed Dec 5, 2011 · Electrical, Seats · 83,869 miles · MD · fire

Seat warmer caught on fire! While parked in the driveway with the engine running, I turned on both manufacturer-installed front seat warmers (outside temp. 36 degrees farenheit) for my son and I. I felt a pinching on upper left thigh / buttock. Thought it was a bug. Shifted in the seat, and felt it again, more painful this time. Lifted myself from the seat a bit to look at the seat and see what was poking or pinching me, saw smoke coming out of a new hole on the left side of the seat. Looked through the hole, and saw flames and smelled burning. Immediately, turned off the seat warmer, got out of the vehicle, reached over and turned off the vehicle. The seat smoldered for another couple of minutes. Called my spouse to check if it was still smoldering, but it had stopped. Took the vehicle to the dealer to get it checked out.

Filed Nov 23, 2011 · Electrical, Seats · 68,000 miles · MD · fire

Heated drivers seat burned through leather and scorched drivers pants.

Filed Mar 8, 2011 · Seats · 90,000 miles · FL · fire

2005 bmx x3 seat warmer on the driver's side burnt through the seat and burnt my leg. The dealer refuses to recognize this is a product defect and will replace the seat.

Filed Feb 5, 2011 · Seats · 67,000 miles · NY

Bmw driver heated seat causes severe burnes

Filed Dec 30, 2010 · Electrical, Seats · 37,000 miles · IN · fire

Heated seat caught fire, burning through thick leather upholstery. 2005 bmw x3, 36,000 miles. Not repaired, out of warranty, bmw only willing to pay for half of replacement, consumer cost 700 dollars.

Filed Jan 14, 2010 · Seats · 31,000 miles · MD · fire · 1 injury

Tl*the contact owns a 2005 bmw x3. The contact was driving approximately 25 MPH on normal road conditions. The driver side heated seat was activated. Suddenly, an unexpected excessive high voltage of heat penetrated through the bottom of the seat. The driver pulled over to the side of the road and deactivated the heated seat system. The driver sustained a minor burn to the left leg and the driver seat cover exhibited a burn mark. The vehicle was able to resume normal operation. The dealer was notified of the malfunction. There was concern of the safety risk involved. The failure mileage was 31,000.

Filed Jan 3, 2010 · Seats · 103,204 miles · IN · fire

My drivers seat burned a hole through the leather and singed my pants. Almost caught on fire and I almost lost control of my vehicle. The car filled with smoke and I now have a pea sized hole in my seat. The heating element apparently has shorted out inside the seat. I read there have been other occurrences of this on these vehicles on some of the websites but there is no recall out, but there should be. This is extremely dangerous. Occurred on 12/31/2009 on my bmx x3 2005. I called the dealer and they said the seat would need to be replaced at my cost of $1500.

Filed Nov 3, 2007 · Seats · 32,000 miles · VA · 1 injury

Drivers seat warmer burned through vinyl seat causing a hole in seat and burn to driver. Car is currently at dealer being repaired. Car was at dealer day before because of ignition not working properly. They were unable to determine problem. Next day incident occurs.