2011 BMW 328I — Complaint #1557729
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY filed April 13, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1557729 (ODI reference 11196065) concerns a 2011 BMW 328I and was filed on April 13, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 8, 2019. The vehicle had 20 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body, 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 structure:body 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.
Complaint Description
I BOUGHT THIS CAR FROM THE DEALERSHIP SO I HAVE TO RETURN THE CAR BECAUSE ALL THIS ISSUES AND NOW THE CAR IS FOR SALE AGAIN AT THE DEALERSHIP
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1557729 |
| ODI Number | 11196065 |
| Date Filed | April 13, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 8, 2019 |
| VIN | WBAPH5C54 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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