22V119000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM:EMISSION CONTROL:CRANKCASE (PCV)
An electrical short can cause the PCV valve heater to overheat, increasing the risk of a fire while driving or, soon after driving when parked.
2008 BMW 3 SERIES
1 safety recall campaign, 93 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints93
Complaints citing a crash0
Complaints citing a fire8
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 19ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 13ENGINE
- 10AIR BAGS
- 5UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 5FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 4ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 4TIRES
- 3FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2008 BMW 3 SERIESs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.