Water Pump Problems of BMW 550

Tl the contact owns a 2011 BMW 550i. The contact stated that the vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic to be serviced. The contact was informed that the auxiliary water pump was defective and needed to be replaced. The contact was informed that there was a recall for similar vehicles however, the VIN showed no open recalls. Fields BMW lakeland (4285 lakeland park dr, lakeland, FL 33809) was contacted and confirmed that the vehicle was not subjected to a recall. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and referred the contact to the NHTSA. Gov website. The contact linked the failure to NHTSA campaign number: 18v248000 (engine and engine cooling) however, the VIN was not included. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 140,000.

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This car has been in the shop many times since I purchased it in 2014. First, it was unknown issues that resulted in the injectors, spark plugs, and battery being replaced. That did not fix the problem and it went back to them several more times before they eventually brought an engineer in that determined that it was a stretched timing chain. This resulted in a new timing chain and all parts associated at 60,000 miles. Since then we have had recall work a couple of times. We have had to have turbo coolant lines replaced and we had to have a new water pump put in at 80,000 miles because ours apparently fell apart. The car needs a quart of oil every 500-700 miles (this has been an issue since the beginning but it has progressively gotten worse) and the newest problem is that it threw a drivetrain malfunction error driving up a hill. This error is related to a complete lack of compression in cylinder 3. The car has 125,000 miles. This car should have been bought back as a lemon but BMW always has some excuse.