2014 BMW X1 — Complaint #2098954
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING filed June 9, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2098954 (ODI reference 11665793) concerns a 2014 BMW X1 and was filed on June 9, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 9, 2025. The report was geocoded to New Hampshire based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling, 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 X1 cohort independently describe similar engine and engine cooling 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 X1 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2014 BMW X1. The contact stated that while driving at an undisclosed speed, the temperature indicated that the engine was overheating before the vehicle lost motive power. The contact was able to pull over to the shoulder of the roadway, where the vehicle failed to restart. The engine temperature warning light was illuminated. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic, who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. After investigating the failure, the contact related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V608000 (Engine and Engine Cooling, Electrical System). The VIN was included, but parts were not yet available. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was unknown. VIN tool confirms parts not available.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2098954 |
| ODI Number | 11665793 |
| Date Filed | June 9, 2025 |
| Failure Date | June 9, 2025 |
| VIN | WBAVM1C5XEV |
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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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