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2011 BMW 328I — Complaint #1110758

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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE filed September 17, 2014

NHTSA complaint #1110758 (ODI reference 10637122) concerns a 2011 BMW 328I and was filed on September 17, 2014. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 1, 2014. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same BMW 328I cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling:engine failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2011 BMW 328I shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2011 BMW 328I
Component
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
State
California

Complaint Description

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2011 BMW 328I. THE CONTACT RECEIVED A RECALL NOTICE FOR NHTSA CAMPAIGN NUMBER: 14V176000 (ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING: ENGINE); HOWEVER, THE PART NEEDED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE WAS UNAVAILABLE. THE DEALER WAS UNCERTAIN WHEN THE PART WOULD BECOME AVAILABLE. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED. THE CONTACT EXPERIENCED THE FAILURES CITED IN THE RECALL NOTICE MULTIPLE TIMES. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS UNKNOWN.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1110758
ODI Number 10637122
Date Filed September 17, 2014
Failure Date January 1, 2014
VIN WBAFR1C56BC

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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.