10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
1 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
1 / 0
Average Mileage:
65,000 miles

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problem #2

Jan 102012

740

  • 130,000 miles
I was driving home from work approximately 3am in the morning and I was getting close to my turn and I was slowing down and I hit a pot hole.. and all of a sudden my driver side airbags deploy almost cause me to wreck my car...

- Downers Grove, IL, USA

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problem #1

Jan 202003

740 8-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • miles
The air bag(s) in my vehicle did not deploy during a collision. The collision was an off-center front-end at a speed estimated to be around 20 M.P.H. or greater. The vehicle is a 1999 BMW 740ia. I believe the air bag(s) to be defective and did not properly protect me.

- Novi, MI, USA

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