2008 BMW 135I — Complaint #1558275
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM filed April 16, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1558275 (ODI reference 11196604) concerns a 2008 BMW 135I and was filed on April 16, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 13, 2019. The vehicle had 116,010 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 fuel/propulsion system, 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 135I cohort independently describe similar fuel/propulsion system 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 2008 BMW 135I shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY CAR SUDDENLY LOST ACCELERATION WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON A FREEWAY THEN THE ENGINE DIED.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1558275 |
| ODI Number | 11196604 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2019 |
| Failure Date | April 13, 2019 |
| VIN | WBANW13518C |
Similar FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM Complaints for 2008 BMW 135I
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I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY AND THE WATER PUMP WENT OUT. THE CAR OVERHEATED AND THE WARNING LIGHT CAME ON TELLING ME TO TURN THE CAR OFF. BEFORE I WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER TO THE SHOULDER THE CAR ST
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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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