BMW Owners Receive Faulty Fuel Pumps, Fight Company For Help

Under Pennsylvania law, if a new car has habitual problems and is out-of-service for a month, it is considered a lemon. The law grants consumers the right to notify the car's manufacturer to ask them to purchase the vehicle back.


Len Kutzko said when he bought his dream car, a BMW X6, it quickly turned into a nightmare when the vehicle started having serious issues.
"This vehicle has been in the shop 70 days since January," said Kutzko. "You're trying to start the car and you get the feeling you bought a bad tank of gas."

Kutzo said his BMW doesn't start properly and will sometimes shut down.

"It's a real safety concern. I have a 3-year-old granddaughter," Kutzko said. "She does not ride in my vehicle. There's no rhyme or reason why it goes. It just goes.

"Experts blame the problem on a faulty fuel pump. Kutzko said the dealer has tried to fix it but the problem keeps reoccurring.

Christina Gill Roseman is a lemon law attorney who is seeing a lot of similar cases.

"To the best of our knowledge, we've not seen a fix for this problem, unfortunately," Roseman said.Roseman explained that the lemon law may not apply to many of the cases, because the problem began after the time period the law states.

"If the problem occurs in the first year or 12,000 miles, whichever comes first, then the law says the manufacturer has to buy the vehicle back," said Roseman.Roseman said because Kutzko's problems began after 26,000 miles he has to convince BMW to buy the car back.

She said the company has settled with some owners.Car experts said BMW has changed the engine design on its latest models and have not seen the same problems since.

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