2024 BMW M2 — Complaint #2012314
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NHTSA Complaint about PARKING BRAKE:ELECTRICAL filed July 31, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2012314 (ODI reference 11605743) concerns a 2024 BMW M2 and was filed on July 31, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 30, 2024. The report was geocoded to North Carolina based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as parking brake:electrical, 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 M2 cohort independently describe similar parking brake:electrical 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 2024 BMW M2 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The electronic parking brake of my vehicle with a manual transmission released automatically simply because the clutch pedal was depressed and released. I did not select a gear, press the brake pedal, or press the accelerator pedal. The parking brake should not be releasing simply by actuating the clutch. There is nothing to stop the vehicle from rolling. This behavior is repeatable and has happened in more than one place.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2012314 |
| ODI Number | 11605743 |
| Date Filed | July 31, 2024 |
| Failure Date | July 30, 2024 |
| VIN | 3MF13DM00R8 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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