Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNKNOWN OR OTHER | |||
| 04/17/2012 | 126598 | ||
| I was picking up my daughter from school around 4:30pm on april 17, 2012 and when i put the car into reverse to back into a parking spot...the car had no power. the transmission just reved up like it was in netural. i could not get the car to back up. i thought maybe i had it in the wrong gear but no it was in reverse. i put the car back into drive and went around the corner to wait for her. when i tried to reverse out of the parking spot it still didn't have any power. thankful the car rolled back far enough to get out of the parking spot. once i got home i had to be pushed into my parking stall because once again the reverse was not working. i haven't had any major problems with my car, the miles are low 125,000 and it gets regular maintence check ups. | |||
| 03/28/2011 | 111000 | ||
| One day i was leaving target to take my son to his dr. appt. and my car would not reverse. reverse acted as a neutral. it was only me and my son i had to ask someone to push me backwards. embarassing!!!!! after that i didn't have the problem again until a few weeks later and now it is non stop. its a major safety hazard. what if someone was to try and rob me when i leave work and i needed to back up quickly. i was told there is a crack in the rear drum and that it is 2,500-3,500 to fix. i am a single mom i cannot afford that. this shouldn't happen there is only 112,000 miles on this car and bmw refuses to awknowledge this problem. something needs to be done. | |||
| 09/01/2009 | 65000 | ||
| 2000 bmw 323 4 door sedan inside fabric separating from windshield column frame, front and back windshields. glue is defective and bmw will not cover the repair. if fabric continues to lift off will obstruct view when driving causing a hazardous situation. | |||
| 08/10/2010 | |||
| The reverse in my 2000 bmw 323i doesn't work as often as it should...my younger sisters had to help me push it or it would of hit another car beside it... there are millions of other people with this same problem so even if the car is maintained correctly it still gets messed up.... bmw out sourced there transmission to gm and i think they should pay for there mistakes and help out a lot of unhappy customers who didn't buy these cars for cheap.... when you buy a luxury car you expect it to at least reverse or at least if its a know issue get some kind of compensation... another unfair thing is that most people don't even know that the transmission was outsourced to another company who may have done a shitty job on purpose just to screw its competition over..... bmw in the past has never had these issues so its obvious what happened... | |||