BMW 540 owners have reported 5 forward collision avoidance related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 3 most common forward collision avoidance problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's automatic emergency braking (3 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's warnings (1 problem). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Automatic Emergency Braking problems | |
| Warnings problems | |
| Adaptive Cruise Control problems |
Problem: I recently had several incidents when the rab (rear automatic brake) on the 2024 BMW 540i vehicle did not work on multiple occasions. The vehicle never stopped as I backed out of my parking space. Afterwards I tested the rab by perpendicularly slowly walking behind the car. Read details...
While driving on highways when there is no car in front of me, my car suddenly warns me of collision and applies brakes automatically! this almost caused an accident with the cars behind me. They were about to collide with me from behind because my car was applying brakes automatically without my Read details...
The instrument cluster display shakes and goes completely black unable to know haw fast your driving with all the system down you never know when its going to happen Read details...