BMW 328I: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 27 recall campaigns for the BMW 328I, model years 1996 to 2016. NHTSA has 1,421 complaints on file for this model line. 16 of the 21 model years have a page on this register.

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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 1 Oct 2026. Complaint file through 15 May 2019. Recall file through 29 Sep 2026.

Model years

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

BMW 328I: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model year	Recall campaigns	Complaints	Share of the line average	Units in the campaigns
2016 BMW 328I NHTSA page	1	11	16%	720,796
2015 BMW 328I	4	17	25%	735,429
2014 BMW 328I	8	47	69%	839,513
2013 BMW 328I	5	90	133%	873,667
2012 BMW 328I	6	47	69%	1,267,696
2011 BMW 328I	7	224	331%	2,570,638
2010 BMW 328I	6	72	106%	2,570,448
2009 BMW 328I	6	128	189%	2,430,952
2008 BMW 328I	5	175	259%	2,414,311
2007 BMW 328I	6	338	500%	2,490,876
2006 BMW 328I	3	0	0%	1,156,959
2005 BMW 328I NHTSA page	1	0	0%	292,948
2004 BMW 328I NHTSA page	1	0	0%	292,948
2003 BMW 328I NHTSA page	1	0	0%	292,948
2002 BMW 328I NHTSA page	1	0	0%	292,948
2001 BMW 328I	3	4	6%	371,644
2000 BMW 328I	7	105	155%	1,018,247
1999 BMW 328I	7	82	121%	207,270
1998 BMW 328I	0	25	37%
1997 BMW 328I	0	25	37%
1996 BMW 328I	0	31	46%

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

2,093 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 328I: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component	Per 1,000	Mentions
Air Bags	218.3	457
Electrical System	182.5	382
Engine	127.6	267
Power Train	51.1	107
Structure	43	90
Steering	40.1	84
Unknown or Other	39.2	82
Engine and Engine Cooling	34.4	72
Fuel/Propulsion System	30.6	64
Seat Belts	26.8	56

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 328I, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 4 campaigns.

Complaints about the BMW 328I, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2018, with 314 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

X5103 campaigns
325I22 campaigns
Z428 campaigns
3 Series8 campaigns
X360 campaigns
335I13 campaigns
330I38 campaigns
323I12 campaigns
528I14 campaigns
5 Series16 campaigns
530I33 campaigns
525I16 campaigns
M326 campaigns
328XI8 campaigns
750LI11 campaigns
535I12 campaigns
325XI12 campaigns
X3 SAV3 campaigns
330CI7 campaigns
32511 campaigns
325CI9 campaigns
X5 SAV9 campaigns
K1200LT0 campaigns
Z33 campaigns
550I11 campaigns
330XI14 campaigns
X1 SAV7 campaigns
540I23 campaigns
R1200 GS17 campaigns
745LI6 campaigns
R1200 RT6 campaigns
335XI6 campaigns
535XI1 campaign
530XI3 campaigns
740IL6 campaigns
135I6 campaigns
7 Series8 campaigns
745I6 campaigns
750I8 campaigns
3187 campaigns
128I7 campaigns
545I0 campaigns
X644 campaigns
1 Series3 campaigns
740I23 campaigns
318I4 campaigns
3281 campaign
R 1200 RT5 campaigns
5255 campaigns
650I5 campaigns
M523 campaigns
3351 campaign
K1300 S5 campaigns
K1200 GT6 campaigns
K1300 GT4 campaigns
320I13 campaigns
R 1200 GS6 campaigns
I38 campaigns
328D8 campaigns
K1200 S9 campaigns

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Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 328I: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/328i/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence: US government work, public domain
Recall file through: 29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through: 15 May 2019
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 328I model years have the most recall campaigns?: 2014 with 8, 2011 with 7, 2000 with 7. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW 328I model year has the most complaints?: The 2007 model year, with 338 of the 1,421 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 328I name?: Air Bags: 218.3 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 182.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine: 127.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the BMW 328I?: 2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.