Water Pump Recall: Park Your BMW Outside

enjoythemusic · 06-30-2018, 07:31 AM

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Negativity? Lol. My neighbour's house was gutted out because of a car fire AND he parked in the driveway as per BMW's suggestions in this case (car in question was not a BMW though).

YIPES and yes that is a huuuge no-no by BMW. Look on the positive side, it burns a bit colder than a Tesla does, and those Tesla can reignite and keep burning.

Yet yes, you are of course right, sometimes defects happen when you make thousands of cars made with tens of thousands of bits and pieces. This is why companies offer recalls to support their products. BMW is better than many when it comes to taking care of their customers imho. It also helps to have a great local dealership as we have here.

wdb · 06-30-2018, 10:00 AM

tl;dr so apologies if this has already been done. I got a recall notice this week too. It's for my 2007 Z4 3.0si coupe, which has an electrically operated valve that can short out and -- yep -- cause a car fire. No warning to park outside though! I guess cars catching fire is becoming a BMW tradition?

Ackrite · 06-30-2018, 10:24 PM

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Shit, now if they could do a recall on the A/C system, my E90 is blowing cool air on the passenger side while the driver side only gets ambient temp air. It's probably the same schrader valve too.

Or was it the Fetzer Valve???

Come on! Everything's ball bearings these days!

Finally... someone caught the Fletch reference!!!

Yogijet · 07-02-2018, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Delta0311

Damn!! On the E9x cars the water pump would just go to shit after like 20k miles. I guess BMW remedied that problem by designing one that just says fuck it and sets itself on fire.

dying here lololololol. I've gone through two in 50k miles on an '09 E82.

Matgsand · 07-17-2022, 09:46 AM

Luckily 520d is not on the list

TTV8M · 07-18-2022, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Joester

LOL, BMW continues to amaze.

"You know that $60k+ car of yours that you probably pride yourself on? Yeah you're gonna want to park that outside in the rain, sleet, snow, hail, and pollen.

Why? Oh uh.... yeah it might just catch on fire randomly.

Oh, for how long? We dunno. Probably years if its anything like our other recalls. Make sure to check out our new front wheel drive models though!"

Sounds like the same dodge ram 1500 issue. Burnt my uncle's house down cuz he had to park too close to the house. Google this : 38 fielder ave toms rover nj fire

It's real. These stupid manufacturers making ticking time bombs

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wdb dances with roads 5079 Rep 4,130 Posts Drives: '07 E86, '02 996, '95 Seven Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: the perimeter iTrader: (4)	tl;dr so apologies if this has already been done. I got a recall notice this week too. It's for my 2007 Z4 3.0si coupe, which has an electrically operated valve that can short out and -- yep -- cause a car fire. No warning to park outside though! I guess cars catching fire is becoming a BMW tradition?
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Matgsand New Member 8 Rep 15 Posts Drives: BMW F1O 520d N47 Join Date: Jul 2022 Location: Johannesburg South Africa iTrader: (0)	Luckily 520d is not on the list
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