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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 007126582 | Incident Date: Oct, 08 2007 |
| Consumer's City: MIRAMAR | Consumer's State: FL |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: MAN | Manufacturers Name: BMW of North America, LLC |
| Model Name: E36 | Model Year: 2003 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Engine and engine cooling:exhaust system |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: WBSBL93473J | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Nov, 12 2007 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Sep, 15 2005 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 6 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Double vanos system on several models of bmw from 1999 to 2006, have defective vanos systems. the e39 double vanos (variable valve timing unit) has a malfunction problem. this double vanos can be found on 6-cyl engines m52tu, m54, and m56, found in several model cars, e39, e46, etc, years 99-03. the malfunction symptoms are almost all subtle and mostly go unnoticed. they include lower gas mileage, lower performance, degraded emissions control, and possibly others. the m52tu engine (99-00) has one further malfunction symptom which is far from subtle. it occurs on cold weather cold engine starts and takes the form of repeated engine attempted stalls and possibly a complete engine stall. the engine rpms drop dramatically and then recover. this then repeats after a few seconds of steady idle. the problem can be more definitively diagnosed by disconnecting the vanos intake or exhaust solenoid electrical connector. *tr |
