I have backed up from my dirveway everyday for a month and the rear cross traffic nevered worked as advertised.
While parking in a rather standard strip mall parking lot, it was discovered the car was too close to the car on the right. The car was backed up a few feet and braked to a stop. When the gear shifter was moved to drive, the car took off and struck the car in front at 13 mph, causing about $75,000 of damage to our bmw ix m60. Bmw did a precrash report with data but no written summary or opinion. It was quite clear from the phone call on the crash that bmw would argue the cause was driver error.
Tire size on bmw ix 2024 model 275/40 r22 sudden lost of pressure psi to 0. I saw a one inch rubber separation just below rim on the car. The tire might have hit a curb at extremely low speed going onto parking garage. No marking of side impact that would explain the opening separation just below rim all warning system after failure functioned correctly. The tire is suspect for this vehicle as the possible problem being on a heavy ev type car.
Car suddenly went into neutral and a drivetrain fault error message popped up. Unable to set to drive to continue driving. Powered off car and back on and same error message.
While driving my vehicle, the vehicle completely shut down and stopped. The seatbelt pulled me back tightly. A notification displayed on my dash continue driving possible: high-voltage system. Cont, driving possible: drivetrain. You can continue driving. Have the problem checked by your service center. I did have to push the start control button to get the car started. The car behind was able to stop in time to avoid a rear end accident. This incident put myself and others at risk. Because the stretch of road i was driving thru was at a low speed, an accident was avoided. Thank god i wasn’t on a freeway. I was able to take the vehicle to a bmw service center. They did keep the vehicle for about a week. Waiting on a part. From our discussion with a service tech and invoice they replaced a relay and said electric fan failed. There was no warnings prior to the incident. Received notification on my dashboard when the incident happened.
Drove the car and parked it. Went into the store and got back into the car. Turned the car on and it had an emergency light saying a drive train malfunction had occurred and that the car could not drive and had to be towed to the dealer for repair. Turned on and off the car. It still had the malfunction. Had the car towed to the bmw dealer. They tested it and came up with 7 codes of malfunction: charging unit, supply voltage, acceleration, drive function, ethernet and transmitter unit, battery below storability, electric a/c compressor. They reset the car and the codes went off. Bmw north america then told the santa monica bmw dealer to test drive the car to see if they could replicate the error. They could not. Without inquiring why the car had stopped functioning, and without repairing anything, they returned the car. They said that this could happen again while i was driving and at any time but bmw did not want to figure out what was wrong until the next catastrophic failure occurred. There are numerous stories of drivetrain malfunctions on reddit. This is an electric car, it is terrifying that the whole thing could turn off at any time. In addition, the dealer says that they don't even know what the codes mean and that they have to ask bmw north america to tell them what to do once they send in the codes! Shouldn't a dealer be able to see what the failures are and have some authority to troubleshoot? It seems like bmw is withholding information from the public and the dealer by working in this manner with electric cars. In addition, why would anyone feel safe driving an electric car under these circumstances?
The display was showing an error "drivetrain malfunction" and we could not drive the car. This looks like a common software problem with bmw ix
I was driving in heavy traffic and the car turned off. The dash went black the parking brake set the seats and the mirrors adjusted the steering wheel moved up as if i was getting out of the car. I tried to continue driving when realized the car was not on. I pressed start button car came on in drive ready mode display rest to factory setting erased all my personal settings display on drivers side charged to a default setting seat and mirrors adjusted steering wheel trained in up position. I began driving display rest set to my personal saved settings called bmw they wanted to tow to the dealer i was 2 miles from dealer drive car there pulled into bay and entire display went black. I had a problem with the car on 6/30/24 where the display crashed dealer kept car for a couple of days retuned car to me and ca would not turn on. Towed to dealer and filed a case with bmw of na. At that time they offered no explanation except that car wasn’t currently experiencing any issues. I questioned whether or not the car could malfunction while driving with no clear answer. I requested a new vehicle but was denied since i had possession of the car when i was told by dealer that i could pick it up. This vehicle is a lease with a 1295. 00 payment it has 11000 miles on it
Intermittent and sudden "changed steering effort" warning on dash every 2-3 vehicle starts. Steering effort is very noticeably increased. This is a known issue among all bmw ix owners, easily inspected, and bmw has swept this problem under the rug for too long and quietly replaced all the steering racks when the warning pops up. Fortunately for many, they're under the factory warranty. Unfortunately for me, i have had my car less than 2 years, and barely over the factory warranty on mileage. However, it is very concerning as many owners are getting their steering racks changed out at even under 10k miles. Yes, this can happen suddenly on the freeway at speed and i do believe is a safety issue. The problem can easily be reproduced and is a very typical problem on bmw ix's all over the us and globally as many owners on forums have been asking for help on this issue. The vehicle has been inspected by the dealer and their fix is to replace the entire steering rack. Yes, intermittent warnings. I hope nhtsa can get to the root of this and have bmw issue a recall for this steering rack issue, as our cars are very heavy and fast and if there are any sudden failures, it can be dangerous and fatal at highway speeds.
I put my car to charge at a manufacturer recommended charging station. I went for a short walk and when i came back, the fire department had arrived. They informed me that the car had caught fire and that it was put out by a good samaritan using an extinguisher. The car was not drivable and there was visible fire damage