Recall Register

BMW 325XI: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 12 recall campaigns for the BMW 325XI, model years 2000 to 2012. NHTSA has 37 complaints on file for this model line. 12 of the 13 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 20001
  2. 20012
  3. 20026
  4. 20035
  5. 20044
  6. 20054
  7. 20066
  8. 20073
  9. 20083
  10. 20093
  11. 20103
  12. 20113
  13. 20122
BMW 325XI: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2012 BMW 325XI200%453,994
2011 BMW 325XI300%1,156,959
2010 BMW 325XI300%1,156,959
2009 BMW 325XI300%1,156,959
2008 BMW 325XI300%1,156,959
2007 BMW 325XI300%1,156,959
2006 BMW 325XI66211%1,420,187
2005 BMW 325XI4270%1,527,190
2004 BMW 325XI414492%1,527,190
2003 BMW 325XI500%1,570,394
2002 BMW 325XI615527%1,571,193
2001 BMW 325XI200%866,955
2000 BMW 325XI NHTSA page100%292,948

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

44 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

BMW 325XI: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Exterior Lighting159.17
Electrical System136.46
Tires113.65
Power Train113.65
Air Bags68.23
Engine and Engine Cooling68.23
Suspension68.23
Latches/Locks/Linkages68.23
Service Brakes, Air45.52
Structure45.52

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 325XI, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2013, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the BMW 325XI, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2009, with 11 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 244 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 325XI: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/325xi/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
BMW of North America, LLC

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which BMW 325XI model years have the most recall campaigns?
2006 with 6, 2002 with 6, 2003 with 5. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW 325XI model year has the most complaints?
The 2002 model year, with 15 of the 37 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 325XI name?
Exterior Lighting: 7 component mentions. Electrical System: 6 component mentions. Tires: 5 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the BMW 325XI?
6 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.