BMW 545 owners have reported 3 problems related to engine belts and pulleys (under the engine and engine cooling category). The most recently reported issues are listed below.
I came back from my summer holiday, and restarted my car. A lot of warnings appears on the odometer. About engine, airbags, steering, tire pressure, and seat belt. (I have checked the tire pressure, it is normal. And I always lock the seat belt before driving). In addition, the navigation screen and radio died. Furthermore, the car lose electricity after it shuts down. After more than 3 hours of shut down, it won't have enough power to re-ignite. I check on NHTSA website that there are three recall issues that my car was included, and related to the issues I am reporting right now. About air bags (08v384000), engine (12e029000), and electrical system (12v126000). But I cannot find out any information by my VIN number on NHTSA. It is a used car, I am not sure whether the former user responded the recall before. Even if this car was recalled before, I don't know whether it was fixed properly, and the similar issues would not happen again.
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Custom ordered 545i in 2004 as still original/existing owner. Have had repeated electrical errors on I drive "dynamic drive failure proceed with caution as the steering has been effected and see your BMW authorized rep," "electrical failure see your BMW authorized rep. Immediately proceed with caution, "passenger restraint fault proceed with caution effecting belt and belt force limiter, stalling at very low and as high rates of speed as high as 70 mph without any warning. " sometimes the car logs the errors and many times it doesn't fully that it takes BMW na's computer to access the extended ram in the car to retrieve per BMW na that the dealerships can't. I even have pictures of the errors the car doesn't log so they claim they can't do anything. BMW engineers in germany have been involved as the car refused to reprogam twice for the dealership. This car is compliant w/all recalls per the dealer and has been in the shop over 16 times w/only 70k miles. The dealer and BMW na can't determine the root cause of the problems except to say they think they're being triggered by low voltage and its had 3 batteries at less than 70k miles, isn't driven much, and BMW na nor the dealership can permantently resolve the errors and stalling and/or stop them. BMW na and the dealership have replaced the entire wiring harness at 13k miles, have refused to take the car back after several attempts after qualifying as a lemon under the lemon law since before 10k miles amd been given multiple excuses for all of the errors they can't resolve. They keep telling us to bring it back every time, buy an extended warranty at $6k to continually service electrical and stalling/running rough issues they can't fix under original factory warranty. They're not reporting service trips to carfax and refuse to release documentation on the car regarding the problems to us or our attorneys.
When I got up out the seat the airbag and seat belt indicator came on and is still on. It says passenger restraint system malfunction. And it will not deploy airbags. Also there have been a few oil leaks in the engine.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Engine And Engine Cooling problems | |
| Engine Oil Leaking problems | |
| Engine Belts And Pulleys problems | |
| Coolant Leaking problems | |
| Engine Head Gasket Leaking problems | |
| Engine Exhaust System problems | |
| Vehicle Overheat problems |