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1972 BMW 2002 Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Jul 30, 2001
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Jul 30, 2001

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1972 BMW 2002. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

Complaints, most recent first

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Brakes
Filed Jul 30, 2001

I PURCHASED A DISC BRAKE CALIPER SET MANUFACTURED/REMANUFACTURED BY CARDONE ON 7-12-2001. ON 7-16-2001 AT MY LOCAL DEALER. AFTER INSTALLATION THE LEFT BRAKE CALIPER FAILED CATASTROPICALLY DURING THE TECHNICIANS TEST DRIVE UPON THE SECOND APPLICATION OF THE BRAKES. FORTUNATELY, THE TECHNICIAN WAS DRIVING SLOW AND WAS ABLE TO AVOID COLLISION. UPON RETURN TO THE DEALERSHIP THE TECHNICIAN REINSPECTED THE BRAKE CALIPERS AND FOUND THE REMANUFACTURED LEFT FRONT BRAKE CALIPER FAILED BECAUSE OF CRACK COMPLETELY ACROSS THE CROSS SECTION OF THE METAL CALIPER ITSELF. THE TECHNICIAN REMOVED THE DEFECTIVE CALIPER AND I RETURNED IT TO DISCOUNT AUTO PARTS STORE IN CALLAWAY FL, WHO IN-TURN WAS TO RETURN THE CALIPER TO CARDONE. I CONTACTED, VIA E-MAIL, CARDONE, WHICH HAS ITS CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS IN PHILADELPHIA PA. THEIR WEBSITE TOUTS HOW EXPERT DONE THEIR PRODUCTS ARE AND THEY SITE VARIOUS AWARDS FOR QUALITY. WELL, I AM NOT PLEASED WITH THE QUALITY NOR THE FACT THAT IF THIS BRAKE CALIPER HAD SUCCEEDED IN PASSING MY TECHNICIANS TEST DRIVE AND THEN FAILED ON THE ROAD-- I WOULD HAVE LOST ALL BRAKE HYDRALICS IN MATTER OF SECONDS ON HARD BRAKING AND WOULD HAVE CERTAINLY HAD A COLLISION. CARDONE'S RESPONSE TO DATE HAS NOT SEEMED TO BE ONE OF SERIOUS INTEREST. ONE NOTE ABOUT MY AUTO-- THIS A SHOWROOM CONDITION CLASSIC CAR METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED SINCE I PURCHASED IT IN 1972.*AK

NHTSA ID
749434
Incident
Jul 18, 2001

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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