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2014 BMW Activehybrid 3 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 Jan 17, 2019
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 Jan 17, 2019

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2014 BMW Activehybrid 3. 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.

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Filed Jan 17, 2019
Fire reported

MY BMW 2014 ACTIVEHYBRID3 BURST INTO FLAME WHILE IT WAS PARKED IN A STARBUCKS PARKING LOT ON JANUARY 12 2019 . THE CAT WAS TURNED OFF AND I AND MY FRIENDS WERE INSIDE STARBUCKS HAVING COFFEE. SOMEONE IN THE STORE WAS POINTING AT SOMETHING IN THE PARKING LOT WE STOOD UP TO LOOK AND DISCOVERED IT WAS MY CAR ON FIRE. 911 WAS CALLED AND THE FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED .

NHTSA ID
11170655
Incident
Jan 12, 2019
Mileage
82,000 mi

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.

Data sources

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