scariest/stupidiest design features of BMWs

[rob101]

Driving my old boy 1982 528i to work on thursday and friday. she brings back good memories, my father has been driving her. anyway i was thinking about the unguarded fan in it which makes you think twice about looking under the hood when the engine is on (its been made safe because the fan is red )and i was wondering what other weird design features other people (especially some of mechanics) have noticed on bmw's
the other one i can think of is the brake booster running off the power steering with a regulator and accumulator with some of the earlier bmws such as the early e32s and e28s.

[pingu]

My E34 540 also has the brake booster running off the power steering. It nearly caught me out a treat when the water pump died and I had to limp home. Luckily (I thought) the brakes were still working... until the power assist was suddenly gone.

[Russell]

E34 Micro filter location is one of the stupid designs. Weak Upper thrust arms is another. V8 engine problem, Plastic parts of the cooling system is another. Guess I could go on and on. Still love the car.

[Nick.Hay]

Not to steal his thunder, but LUKE01's E34 (the black one in the pics in our post... see luke01 and nick.hays e34s) has the STRANGEST reverse-gear-engaged chime... Its like an icecream truck!! It plays tunes in the boot..er...trunk. Apparently sometimes its loud, sometimes its quite. Its just like our 'gong', but it plays a tune!!

His car was an import from japan... Geez, those Japs have some ideas!!

[Rob]

Lol! funniest thing I've heard all day.

[joshua43214]

I-Drive is hands down winner in my book for dumbest thing BMW ever came up with.

After that EWS-II gets the award for least reliability when it needs work the most and being the most intermittant bug prone system.

[mzarifkar]

The BMW jack. That God Da%$ Mother F%^&INg thing is the most unstable piece of junk, im suprised there is not a recall campaign on it. I should start one! anyone else agree?

[Incantation]

only things i don't like about the e34 are:
-trunk is a biatch to get bass out of
- the starter motor sounds really gay (for 535 at least)

[Alexlind123]

only things i don't like about the e34 are:
-trunk is a biatch to get bass out of
- the starter motor sounds really gay (for 535 at least)

It shows the quality of the trunk when its hard to get bass from it. These cars arent WRXesque milk carton cars.

[pyro]

my 735i had a bell sound everytime you started it

Also i think that the door pannels are crap...