2013 Bmw 528I - Ratings, Complaints and Recalls

"the car is from 2013. bmw usa does not want to cover the warranty due to the defective turbo feed oil line, part that it was replacing and i never received information from bmw about it. a few days ago i called and they told me that the car was manufactured in 2012 and had its first service in december 2012 i do not apply for the 10-year or 120,000-mile warranty. really???rs absurd. they should check this out. my car has been smoking for more than 2 years and i never knew about it. please help with the warranty."

"at least 7 times in the last 3 years i have had a weird engine problem. after park the car for awhile it failed to start with no reason. after one hour of trying to start, engine start as usual. car have been test by the dealership for a whole week and no codes or fails have been detected. most of these fails have happend after park the car, a couple of times engine stalls while driving. very dangerous situation. after been evaluated for the dealership, car has failed twice. same as always it starts again after trying several times. lapse between fails is 3 to 4 months apart. fail happens only on the city so far."

"i was driving my 2013 bmw 528i in april 2019 with ~65k miles at the time. the drive train malfunction indicator came on and the car was driving sluggish. per bmws request i drove it to bmw service center. fault codes f133b04 and f133e10. they performed calibration, tested and sent me on my way and no more warning displayed. june 2020 low oil pressure indicator came on. i took it in for service (oil change, cbs) and indicator was no longer displaying. october 2020 low oil pressure and drive train malfunction indicators come on while driving on the street. i was able to drive home, but the car completely stops while parking in the driveway. i had it towed to bmw and it was diagnosed as timing chain and oil pump chain drive, plus faults with the vanos unit (fc 1c0102, 1c2002, 1c0301, 130f11, 130e11, 131401, 130308, 130304, 130108, 131501). to investigate further they want me to pay $3,100+, but that is not fix it. i still owe $8k on the car and now it's requiring a engine work that will possibly exceed what i owe on the car. my car has 83k miles on it and should not be inoperable. the timing chain & oil pump chain drive was known before i purchased the car in 2016, but was not disclosed. all of my service has been done at bmw. bmw serviced my car when the indicator came on in 2019, yet did not go further to fix the issue that they knew existed. bmw needs to do the right thing and fix my car for free. there is no way that the "ultimate driving machine" with 83k miles on it should be landfill bound. instead of issuing the extended warranty, bmw should have issued a recall due to this being a safety issue. this is a safety issue because the car just stops and locks up - no way to put it in neutral to at least move it so that it is not a hazard. someone or many people could die if a car does this on the highway. bmw do the right thing."

"driving along the 8 freeway, driving straight, but slightly uphill, outside san diego, the engine died very suddenly. we coasted to the side of the freeway, and the car would not restart. we had the car towed to bmw of el cajon, where it was determined that the timing chain tensioner had failed, a piece of plastic had plugged the oil pump, and the engine lost time, causing catastrophic engine damage. we were told that the engine will have to be replaced. the car has 89,190 miles on it."

"iissue with the timing chain which i understand to be a common problem with many bmw's drivetrain malfunction warning light came on and i had a loss of power along with low oil pressure warning light.took the car the a bmw dealership for a diagnostic and the results were the timing chain needed replacement along with cam adjuster solenoids and phasers. estimated cost almost $5k. car is currently sitting in my driveway for the past 40 days. my understanding is that this is/has happened to many bmw owners of 2012-2015 cars."

"my engine oil pressure light came on in the car and then the drive train malfunction light.i tried to run a self diagnostic on the car as this is a feature built in and the engine oil check would only go up to 15% and cut off. i took it into bmw of bloomfield for service mentioning this to them. they changed the oil and cleared the codes got the car back. fast forward to just a few weeks ago, i am driving on the highway and the engine oil pressure and drive train malfunction light come on and the car stops on me. just purchased the vehicle 1 month ago and the dealership is advantage bmw of houston"

"i was driving my vehicle on the highway and a drive train malfunction indicator was displayed on the screen. the car immediately lost all power and i was forced to pull over on the side of the road. i towed my vehicle to the closest certified repair shop. after the repair ran their diagnostic test, they informed me that i needed a new engine because it had seized. they also quoted me at $9,900 for a new engine. my car currently has approximately 111,000 miles."

"drivetrain malfunction error message appeared and car went into limp mode. replaced air pump to control engine vacuum, made car driveable, cost $1200. did not stop drivetrain malfunction error message from coming on. took car in for routine service and had them look at the issue. timing chain is about to go out. car is not running properly, and there is no way to know when the timing chain will completely fail. i googled the issue to see if it is common and found out it's extremely common with the n20 engines. the error message comes on every single time i drive my car, and it has affected the performance."

"this incident happened on april 19th. whilst climbing an uphill on a multi lane road, i felt i was losing power, confused and worried, i pushed on the gas pedal harder and harder only to realize i was rapidly slowing down, and the engine had stopped revving! looking at the dash, the transmission automatically had shifted to neutral and the car was coasting uphill steadily losing speed. was in the center lane, hit the hazard lamps and tried to change over to the right lane in an attempt to get over to right shoulder for safely. car in the adjacent lanes parallel to me, not being able to see all flashers going were not friendly at first to let me change and thank god, i somehow forced my way in and jumped over to the shoulder. enough to say, i and my family in the car were scared of being rear ended or side swiped and would have been in a multi car collision that was all avoided from my quick thinking on my heels and bit of luck on my side. i towed my car to bmw dealer. dealer found low oil pressure codes, on further debugging found broken timing chain guide, and informed me that engine was damaged from the broken timing chain guide. only solution now is to switch to a new engine costing approximately $17k. since i have 120k miles. i leant about my warranty extension for timing chains and oil pump. my request for any assistance under warranty extension has been declined by bmw because the car has 120k miles vs. 70k miles warranty period. while i understand and appreciate that, i am baffled at the fact that, bmw knew this problems and possible engine damage but did not notify the customers of possible sudden loss of power and catastrophic engine failure. if i had know i would have replaced the timing chain at my cost and potentially saved the engine. at least they should have updated the maintenance schedule to inspect the timing chain degradation."

"this incident happened on april 19th. whilst climbing an uphill on a multi lane road, i felt i was losing power, confused and worried, i pushed on the gas pedal harder and harder only to realize i was rapidly slowing down, and the engine had stopped revving! looking at the dash, the transmission automatically had shifted to neutral and the car was coasting uphill steadily losing speed. was in the center lane, hit the hazard lamps and tried to change over to the right lane in an attempt to get over to right shoulder for safely. car in the adjacent lanes parallel to me, not being able to see all flashers going were not friendly at first to let me change and thank god, i somehow forced my way in and jumped over to the shoulder. enough to say, i and my family in the car were scared of being rear ended or side swiped and would have been in a multi car collision that was all avoided from my quick thinking on my heels and bit of luck on my side. i towed my car to bmw dealer. dealer found low oil pressure codes, on further debugging found broken timing chain guide, and informed me that engine was damaged from the broken timing chain guide. only solution now is to switch to a new engine costing approximately $17k. since i have 120k miles. i leant about my warranty extension for timing chains and oil pump. my request for any assistance under warranty extension has been declined by bmw because the car has 120k miles vs. 70k miles warranty period. while i understand and appreciate that, i am baffled at the fact that, bmw knew this problems and possible engine damage but did not notify the customers of possible sudden loss of power and catastrophic engine failure. if i had know i would have replaced the timing chain at my cost and potentially saved the engine. at least they should have updated the maintenance schedule to inspect the timing chain degradation."