ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:EXHAUST SYSTEM
Smoldering particles and a melting intake manifold increase the risk of a fire.
4 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (2 open), 9 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
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.
Smoldering particles and a melting intake manifold increase the risk of a fire.
A melting intake manifold increases the risk of a fire.
Fuel pump failure can cause an engine stall while driving, increasing the risk of a crash.
The melting intake manifold can increase the risk of a fire.
Two 2018 BMW 328Ds 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.