2014 BMW 328D — Complaint #1787871
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NHTSA Complaint about FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP:CONTROL/DRIVE MODULE filed January 12, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1787871 (ODI reference 11447205) concerns a 2014 BMW 328D and was filed on January 12, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on December 30, 2021. The vehicle had 85,602 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 system, diesel:delivery:fuel pump:control/drive module, 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 328D cohort independently describe similar fuel system, diesel:delivery:fuel pump:control/drive module 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 2014 BMW 328D shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2014 BMW 328D. The contact stated that while his daughter was driving approximately 50-55 MPH, the vehicle inadvertently stalled in the middle of the highway. There were no warning lights illuminated. The contact's daughter was unable to veer to the side of the road due to oncoming traffic. The police arrived on the scene and stopped the traffic before assisting the contact's daughter in pushing the vehicle to the side of the roadway. The vehicle was then towed to the dealer who diagnosed that the fuel pump and the fuel pump control unit needed to be replaced. The dealer advised the contact that the vehicle would be repaired at his own expense since the VIN was not included in NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V586000 (Fuel System, Diesel). The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was approximately 85,602.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1787871 |
| ODI Number | 11447205 |
| Date Filed | January 12, 2022 |
| Failure Date | December 30, 2021 |
| VIN | WBA3D5C55EK |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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