2012 BMW 550i owner complaints

The contact owns a 2012 BMW 550i. The contact stated after parking and exiting the vehicle, he noticed coolant leaking on the front driver’s side and saw white smoke exiting near the water pump. The contact stated the low coolant fluid and the drivetrain malfunction warning lights were illuminated. The contact stated the smoke disappeared on its own. The contact stated that he continued driving the vehicle. The contact took the vehicle to an independent mechanic and was informed that the water pump needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact took the vehicle to the local dealer, where it was diagnosed with needing the water pump to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired but was pending repairs. Upon investigation, the contact associated the failure with NHTSA Campai

Son was driving car and car just shut off in the middle of the road without any warning. Car was towed to BMW dealership and they want to charge $3000 to tear down engine to see why engine locked up. Car was bought 31 may 2019 and shut down after driving a little over 3,000 miles 12 october 2019. Just a complete runaround with BMW offices.

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 BMW 5501. While driving approximately 65 MPH, the "service required soon" message illuminated on the message center and the vehicle stalled. The contact coasted the vehicle to the shoulder. The vehicle was towed to global imports (550 interstate north pkwy se, atlanta, ga 30339) where it was diagnosed that the engine seized and a new one was needed. The contact also stated that the vehicle was running oddly approximately a week before the failure, presumably due to oil consumption issues. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 49,479.

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 BMW 550i. The vehicle stated that while driving at 30 MPH, the vehicle stalled as all the warning lights illuminated. The vehicle failed to restart after numerous attempts. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the vehicle was hydro-locked. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 8,500. The VIN was not available.

Takata recall car uses excessive amounts of oil, a quart every week.

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 BMW 550i. While driving approximately 50 MPH, the vehicle shook. The contact pulled over and turned off the vehicle. Shortly afterwards, the engine malfunction warning indicator illuminated and the vehicle shook again. The contact pulled over a second time and turned off the vehicle; however, it failed to restart the second time. The contact had the vehicle towed to nally BMW in decatur, ga where it was diagnosed that there were metal shavings in the oil and there was a loud knocking sound in the engine. The dealer diagnosed that the engine needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the vehicle was included in customer service recall number: n63. Repairs needed to be performed to the engine in order to avoid the failures listed

Engine is available for inspection upon request. Earlier this month, my 550i completely shut off at a traffic light. When attempting to restart the engine, the Starter strained very hard and smoke came out of the engine. Engine was immediately shut off and the car was towed to a local shop. In turn the shop replaced the Starter the following day and heard knocking from the engine once it turned it over. Upon examination the shop pulled open the oil filter and it was full of metal shrapnel. I feel fortunate the car was not in motion at the time of the failure, given the engine shut off with no warning this could have resulted in a catastrophic accident.

I have a 2012 BMW 550i, crosstrack, v-8, and with only 5500 miles (purchased in july 2012). When initially starting my car on a flat plain, the behavior of the car started to shake fiercely, repeated loss of power, and the I-drive reported the chassis was malfunctioning. Only moderate driving was permitted. The engine light stayed on, and no matter how far the gas pedal was pressed, the car would not gain power. While driving, the car stalled several times as I was attempting to go up the hill to my home. When the car stalled, the gears would not go into neutral or park, and the steering wheel locked up immediately. This experienced was close call to crashing the car and possible sustaining significant injuries. After waiting for three hours, the car started up normally. Several p

When I press on the gas to accelerate the "drivetrain malfunction" error comes on. My car only have 51,000 miles. I have to turn the car off and wait a minute to resume driving.

"takata recall" our car started flashing "increased battery discharge" and "all electrical devices will shut off" we took it to the BMW house. They diagnosed it, as needing a new battery. We replaced the battery and 1 week later the same message came on again "increased battery discharge' "all electrical devices will shut off" . We had to take it back to the BMW house and they diagnosed it this time as needing the external door handle replaced, they said the door handle had gone out and that some part in that handle puts the car to sleep but it was not allowing the car to go to sleep and this pulled the battery down. We replaced that. That lasted 2 weeks and again this same message came "increased battery discharge" "electrical devices are shutting down. I was on the way to the BMW ho

Car will stall jerk and stall losses power while accelerating.

This is the 3rd "run flat tire" within a 3 month period that could not run flat even a mile. *tr

Front tire buldge after driving over a recessed man whole cover-this is the 3rd tire I replaced . The tires are goodyear 245/40 r19 eagle run flats these tires are dangerous , they are not safe. *tr

We were traveling on a highway, hit a small pothole and immediately our low tire pressure warning went off. My husband who was driving the car, pulled to safe location, got out to inspect the passenger front tire to find that the goodyear tire had actually blown out. We had a 4 inch tear in the tire just above the rim. This is the third dunlop tire that we have had to replace with the same issues in the last three months. The first tire we had an issue with bubbled, the 2nd also bubbled but with only 100 miles on it, and then the last which actually blew out completely. We have had made numerous calls to dunlop and BMW expressing our safety concern with these tires. *tr

My car died in an intersection unexpectedly as if my battery had died. My infant was in the backseat. This was suck a busy intersection that police dept had to park behind me to keep me from being hit. The car could not be put in neutral to move it out of the way. After over an hour we were able to restart the car and excessive battery discharge message displayed. This is on top of me taking it to the dealership for excessive oil consumption and BMW was aware my motor would eventually give out.

While driving on highway a pop sound happen and car started to drive and shacking occurred and shifting of gears was erratic. Transfer case failed made very difficult to get out of way of traffic bit of stall and hesitation.

Tl* the contact owns a 2012 BMW 550i. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the drivetrain malfunction warning light appeared on the instrument panel. The contact also noticed that the warning light was illuminated upon depressing the accelerator pedal. The contact also stated that the vehicle hesitated when the failure occurred. The contact took the vehicle to an independent mechanic who replaced a singular coil and a spark plug. Two months later, the same failure recurred and the contact took the vehicle back to the independent mechanic where they replaced all the coils and spark plugs. Upon return of the vehicle, the contact was driving home and the vehicle shut-off without warning. The vehicle was towed back to the same independent mechanic. Upon further inspection o

BMW tears up tires causing them to shread while driving down road. After two alignments in a year. No front end damage per BMW.

I was driving when the vehicle engine randomly shut down with out warning I was on the freeway at the time and could have been hit by a car. I took thr car to an auto repair shop, had the problem inspected snddiagnosed and was told the engine was faulty. I had the engine replaced and the same issue occurred. There were no warning lamps, messages, or alerts prior to the problem occurring. The drivetrain malfunction light came on as soon as the engine cut off.