general problems of the 2007 BMW Z4

Power steering is rigid at road speeds. Dealer says it needs a $4400 steering esp unit. Car dad 3700 miles not it. This is definitely a safety issue since car is difficult to control.

Steering is dangerously defective with car moving left and right rapidly creating scary and uncomfortably driving experiencing. Feels like intermittent grabbing resistance on the steering wheel when turning at normal highway speeds, almost like the brakes are being applied intermittently in the turn. I have had the tires rebalanced and inspected twice for defective or separation of treads and nothing changed. Also had a BMW specialist check the suspension and front end and he said all was good there. This is a very dangerous situation and I have taken the car off the road do to severity of the problem.

A tractor trailer hit my car, a BMW Z4 convertible, CT license plate, in the rear left, as I was moving slowly with traffic just before the overpass, right before I hit the tappanzee bridge as I was heading to NJ on Friday, August 1st, 2014, sometime between 11:50-1230pm. I believe it was close or about 12:20pm. My head slammed violently against the top of the wheel from the impact. I looked back after being hit and the driver agreed to pull over when there was room for him after going over the bridge to exchange insurance information. I wrote down his license plate , it was tennessee u514217. I believe the # of the truck was 5318. The driver was a white male, about 40-45year of age. After I sped in front, I pulled over just over the bridge to the right where construction was taking place and I waited for the truck to pull in behind me. The trucker pulled up to the left of my car while he was still in the first lane, and he was moving at a snail's pace; his window was rolled down and he stared me in the face, curled his right hand into a fist, put it up to his neck, raised his right thumb, and dragged his right hand across his neck as if to say he'd cut my throat. He then yelled, "I got somewhere to be! do you want me to drive back up here after we exhange personal information, come to where you live, and cut your thorat!" he had driven past me. I hesitated. I didn't know what to do. , I got a cat scan and had my head wound looked at, and was diagnosed with a severe bruise to the head and recieved treatment for anxiety I was feeling from the accident and the hit and run threat. A month has passed and I am still feeling anxiety over this; not to mention my car has been damaged. I am looking to find the driver who hit my car and caused me the wound and constant anxiety I now suffer.

While driving straight, the steering wheel tends to stick, force is needed to steer to the left or right or to even keep it going straight. Once you start turning it seems to feel normal until you start to move the wheel back to the neutral position, then you realize the wheel is now stuck in this position. It usually takes quite a tug to get it moving again! it appears to be getting more extreme and requiring more force to move the wheel. I have owned the car for about 2 1/2 years and have always thought it steered a little different, I just figured it was a BMW thing and it being a smaller car that was causing it to handle this way!! I don't think that any more!.

Case number 60360 from fars 2012 database. Car ran off right side of roadway while negotiating curve in road and hit a tree. Sole-occupant driver perished in subsequent fire. Six months before accident, victim reported that car "occasionally pops and/or squeaks when cornering" in request for service appointment with stevens creek BMW. Pls note that lat/long in fars contradicts report that accident occurred on central expwy eastbound immediately east of bernardo Ave.

2007 BMW Z4, power steering went out while driving, making car hard to steer. Car is still under warranty, dealer is going to fix it. According to internet, lots of other people have had similar problems with this model. . .

The contact owns a 2007 BMW Z4. While driving various speeds, the vehicle veers left and right sporadically. When he applies pressure to the brakes, the vehicle will abruptly pull to the left or right. The dealer stated that the road conditions were possibly causing the failure. The contact called the manufacturer and they referred him back to the dealer. The failure mileage was 1,000 and current mileage was 3,500. Updated 05/27/08 updated 05/27/08.