Sudden failure of the transfer case while making a left turn. lost of all power to the wheels.
I lost drive fuctions while driving my 2014 bmw 328d xdrive. i was making a left hand turn when i heard a loud noise as if i hit something. my display showed drivetrain malfunction and put itself into neutral. i narrowly missed getting t-boned by on-coming traffic. i managed to let it roll to the side of the road imediately after the turn. i could not move the car and had to have it towed to a shop. the main cause was the transfer case. the rear drive line lost it fuction turning the car from awd to fwd and would not move. this is a major concern and issue that bmw must address. i narrowly escaped serious injury or death. if the oncoming cars did not slow down or if i took the turn 1 second later i would have been hit on the passenger side
Driving straight on flamingo road at 45 mph in sunrise fl and experienced major power loss in driving power with no transmission control. pulled on the side and able to drive very slowly 10 mph. had to be towed to dealer. transfer case and transmission were replaced. such component failures should not have occurred. vehicle has only 58,000 miles. i was given a reason of premature component failure/manufacturing defect from the dealer. after the repair, a major improvement occurred on the efficiency indicators that proves to the fact that i had this problem since the i purchased the vehicle new and it had deteriorating conditions. there may impact on other vehicles in the same category that could point to a recall. major costs incurred from towing and repairs that were out the warranty that expired in dec 2014.dealer declined to absorb such costs. a complaint was also was submitted to the manufacturer corp office.
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.
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.