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2014 BMW 3 Series

Complaints about this year name bmw 328d far more often than the other years of this generation — 13% of them, about 7× the usual rate of 1.8%.

Generation 2 of the BMW 3 Series, which began in 2012 and ran to 2018. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.

Also unusual this year

• diesel — 9% of complaints, 5× usual
• 328d contact — 9% of complaints, 5× usual
• fuel system — 9% of complaints, 4× usual

What owners wrote

while driving at an undisclosed speed, there was exhaust fumes inside the cabin of the vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where the engine was flushed; however, the failure recurred. The contact related the failure to NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V90700…

a recall notification for NHTSA Campaign Number: 21V907000 (Fuel System, Diesel) however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manuf…

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the BMW 3 Series was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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