NHTSA Complaint #10822566 — 2012 BMW 528XI

IN OCT. 2015 I PULLED OUT OF MY STREET INTO TRAFFIC AND LOST ALL POWER. " DRIVETRAIN MALFUNCTION" DISPLAYED ON DASH, THE CAR LOSES ALL POWER AND GOES INTO "LIMP" MODE, GOES LIKE 5 MPH MAX. THANKFULLY I GOT IT OFF THE STREET WITHOUT BEING HIT, TURNED IT OFF AND RESTARTED IT, DISPLAY WAS GONE AND I WAS ABLE TO DRIVE IT NORMALLY. AFTER MY HEARTRATE SLOWED AND I GOT TO THE OFFICE I CALLED AND MADE AN APPT. TO HAVE IT LOOKED AT. IT HAD 48K MILES AT THE TIME OF THE FIRST INCIDENT AND STILL UNDER WARRANTY. AFTER LEAVING IT WITH THE DEALER FOR OVER A WEEK, THEY TOLD ME THAT THEY REPROGRAMMED THE CAR TO THE LATEST SOFTWARE AND SHOULD BE FINE. NOW FAST-FORWARD TO JAN 2016, 54K MILES, MY WIFE WAS DRIVING IT ALONG AND SAME THING HAPPENED, "POWERTRAIN MALFUNCTION" DISPLAYED ON DASH CAR WENT INTO LIMP MODE, THERE WAS NO WHERE TO PULL OVER IN MORNING RUSH HOUR, HAD TO PUT HAZARDS ON UNTIL SHE COULD GET TO A SAFE LOCATION TO PULL OVER. TURNED IT OFF, RESTARTED AND WAS ABLE TO DRIVE AGAIN. SHE WAS VERY SCARED AND SHAKEN. CALLED THE DEALER FROM WHICH WE BOUGHT IT NEW AND AM TAKING IT IN TODAY. THUS, AFTER RESEARCHING THIS ISSUE IT SEEMS TO BE A COMMON OCCURRENCE WHICH HAS BEEN GOING ON WITH BMW'S. BEFORE SOMEONE GETS HURT OR KILLED SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MAKE SURE THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. FROM WHAT I'VE READ I AM NOT THE ONLY BMW OWNER WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THIS PROBLEM!