NHTSA Complaint #10810194 — 2012 BMW 528I

MY BMW 528I 2012 I BOUGHT USED IN APRIL 2015. IN NOVEMBER 2015 MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT CAME ON. THEN IT WENT AWAY , BUT A WEEK LATER IT CAME ON AND ANOTHER LIGHT SAYING THE COOLANT WAS LOW. I TOOK IT TO BE TOPPED OFF THAT DID NOT WORK. MY CAR WENT FROM YELLOW ZONE TO RED SEVERE WHEN DRIVING HOME WITH MY KIDS ON A BUSY STREET. MY CAR BEGIN TO OVERHEAT . I TOOK IT HOME IMMEDIATELY . THE CAR LOSS ALL POWER IT WOULD NOT DRIVE FASTER THAN 25 MPH . I KNEW WHAT EVER IT WAS GOING TO BE COSTLY. MY CAR SAT FOR A MONTH UNTIL I THOUGHT I HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO FIX. LOW AND BEHOLD I TOOK IT TO A BMW DEALERSHIP THERE HAVE BEEN ONE CAMPAIGN FOR THERMOSTAT AND ONE RECALL ON THE OIL FILTER HOUSING. THERE HAS SEEM TO BE AN ISSUE I WAS UNAWARE ABOUT. THE DEALER IS SAYING BECAUSE OF THE COOLANT MIXING WITH OIL AND THE CAR OVERHEATING THERE IS POSSIBLE ENGINE DAMAGE. 20K WORTH OF DAMAGES . I HOPING BMW HELPS BECAUSE MY CAR IS AT THE DEALER STILL BECAUSE OF THIS HORRIBLE MALFUNCTION. I HAVE ATTACHED A THREAD I FOUND ONLINE THAT BMW SENT OUT TO ALL THE CONSUMERS IN JULY 2015 THAT I WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF.