Bmw 740ila 1998

• Recall 11193 [USA]: This condition will cause a noise from the differential and, ultimately, failure of the shaft and loss of drive.
  Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. The differential pinion shaft within the differential case assembly was produced without the appropriate surface hardening. This can result in the shaft experiencing premature wear.
  dealers will replace the entire differential assembly.
  owner notification began december 28, 1998.Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact bmw at 1-800-831-1117.Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).

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Transmission problems - 1998 740il. I bought a cpo bmw 740il with 35,000 miles. Now i have 65,600 miles on the car and i too am having issues with the transmission. While the car was under cpo warranty, i had taken the car to the dealership when i was getting a check trans message, which i have service records for. The dealership refused to acknowledge the error, saying that they could not read the code on the computer. Well now the transmission won\'t go in park or reverse and needs to be replaced and the car is out of cp warranty. Damage resulting = looks like i have to pay $7,000 for a transmission that should have been fixed while still under warranty, as the warranty on the car has expired. The car is not worth more than $12,000 now. *tr

My car stumbled less than a mile from my house. A few hundred feet later it stalled completely. At first the garage thought it was a failed fuel pump. After replacing the pump, the car stumbled again and the ecu (engine computer) caught fire. After towing the car to a second garage they found a bad ground on the harness coming off of the thermostat that caused the fuel pump to fail as well as the ecu fire. They also found that the egs (transmission computer) had been destroyed by this bad ground also. Total repair bill for this failure, ~$4500. *tr

While driving vehicle shuts down and everything lock ups - steering included.