Consumer Complaint Detail

BMW / 3 SERIES / 1994

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 004304027 Incident Date: Oct, 12 2004
Consumer's City: SAN JOSE Consumer's State: CA
Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN Manufacturers Name: BMW of North America, LLC
Model Name: 3 SERIES Model Year: 1994
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Suspension:rear
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Oct, 12 2004 Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: Aug, 23 1997
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 6 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: Sub frame rips apart from under body of car. this is a common problem with 92-98 3 series of bmw cars. these car are generally known as body model e36. i belong to several bmw ownwers sites in the web and this seems to be a very common problem, where it starts slowly with just a click until it it becomes a clunck when changing gears and them it is too late. this is one story. http://bimmer.roadfly.org/bmw/forums/e36/5783036-1.html i'm not sure if there has been any deats from this, yet. number of failures it seems over 100. injured, not sure but i'm sure there are potential for that.*ak