2014 BMW X1 SAV Other or unknown Problems

“While exiting the interstate, I heard a large boom and I noticed flying pieces of glass when I checked the review window. I pulled over, got out of car to look for damage saw none but could hear glass fragments when I began to move again. I was only blocks from my destination and checked the roof to see the broken moon roof. Nothing impacted the car so the window broke on its own. …”

“This car was parked in my sunny driveway, ambient temp ~85 degrees f. Several hours later, I returned to drive it and found the rear glass over the hatch trunk lid broken into thousands of equal parts, but all in place with no indentation or evidence of anything having impacted the glass, such as a limb, rock, baseball, etc. When I touched the glass, it crumbled into the storage area and on the pavement. The autoglass repair place I took it to opined that this has occurred in various vehicles as a result of heat building up inside. If so, this is a serious manufacturing and design defect”

“While driving the 2014 Bmw x1 at highway speeds (60mph) the front glass panel of the panoramic sunroof spontaneously exploded. The explosion caused a shocking boom, and some small fragments of tempered glass fell into the passenger compartment of the car, some fragments blew into the vehicle behind us and some fragments remained shattered in-place. When able to pull over and inspect, the glass seemed to shatter outward, and no object that may have impacted the glass could be found. …”

“My husband was driving home from work on paper mill road in newark, delaware and heard a kerthunk from the engine. He pulled over to the hard shoulder of the road, saw he had not run over anything, and then saw oil gushing onto the road from the motor. A few minutes later, as he was sitting in the stationary car, he saw the hood of the car starting to bubble. He exited the vehicle and the car went up in flames. The fire department came and extinguished the fire -- that process took around 15 minutes. The delaware state patrol (officer ferguson) arrived on the scene and had the car towed. …”