Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 04/15/2010 | 50100 | ||
| Tl- the contact owns a 2003 bmw z4. while driving 3mph in a parking lot the vehicle stalled. he coasted the vehicle in an area to park it. he attempted to restarted the vehicle and it would idle but if he engaged the accelerator the vehicle would stall again. the vehicle has not been repaired. he called the manufactured and was advised his vehicle was not part of a recall. the failure has happen twice. the failure and current mileage were 50,100. vwb | |||
| 11/28/2003 | 7600 | 2 | 01/22/2003 |
| Note: this is my second complaint for the same problem.... when coming to a stop at a traffic signal, my car began to rev uncontollably at speeds so high i though the engine would blow. as happened the first time, i pressed as hard as i could so as not to lunge forward. i shut the engine off but upon starting, it was still out of control. i don't know what it was that stopped this problem as one gets pretty much panicked when one can't control the situation. *ak | |||
| 08/20/2003 | 4800 | 1 | 06/01/2003 |
| Driving on the interstate in my june 2003 production bmw z4 3.0i roadster. the car suddenly dies at 65 mph. the eml light comes on, brake lights come on, rpm needle surges, throttle is unresponsive, and the foot brakes are frozen and cannot be depressed. i was barely able to swerve off the interstate, across the service road, and into a parking lot where i had to use the hand brakes to get the car to stop completely.*ak | |||
| 08/08/2003 | 5095 | 0 | 01/11/2003 |
| I was approaching a traffic signal and i had to stop. i began easing up on the brake pedal as the car was coming to a stop. it was then that i realized i was having to press harder on the brake pedal as the car was not maintaining the slow speed i was expecting. having reached the point at which i had to stop, i found myself pressing quite hard on the brake pedal. i immediately put the car into neutral and noticed the tachometer reading 3,500 to 4,000 rpm's. i believe it was my tapping on the gas pedal that got the car to rev at the normal rpm's for a car that is a stationary position, however, this happened so fast and caught me off guard, that perhaps the problem fixed itself and it wasn't my tapping on the gas pedal. *nlm | |||
| 05/15/2003 | 5396 | 1 | 01/08/2003 |
| Engine surged then revved uncontrollablly after startup. continued to surge and idle with rpm alternating between 0 - 2500 rpm the accelorator was unresponsive.*ak after startup the car surged forward. damange to front bumber and cracked light resulted. defective part: bad throttle housing, replaced engine throttle (r6385) defect code 15 540 712 | |||