ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
An overheated starter motor can ignite nearby combustible material in the engine compartment, increasing the risk of a fire.
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.
An overheated starter motor can ignite nearby combustible material in the engine compartment, increasing the risk of a fire.
Unintentionally closing the windows or sunroof without the key present can increase the risk of injury to occupants inside the vehicle.
Two 2023 BMW 840Is 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.