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BMW 328IC: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the BMW 328IC, model years 1997 to 2000. NHTSA has 40 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 3 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. 19970
  2. 19990
  3. 20000
BMW 328IC: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 BMW 328IC034255%
1999 BMW 328IC NHTSA page018%
1997 BMW 328IC NHTSA page0538%

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

43 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 328IC: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Structure325.614
Power Train1868
Suspension116.35
Engine and Engine Cooling934
Visibility69.83
Electrical System46.52
Tires46.52
Air Bags46.52
Seats23.31
Equipment23.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 328IC, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the BMW 328IC, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2006, with 9 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 250 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 328IC: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/328ic/. 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
15 May 2019

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 328IC model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which BMW 328IC model year has the most complaints?
The 2000 model year, with 34 of the 40 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 328IC name?
Structure: 14 component mentions. Power Train: 8 component mentions. Suspension: 5 component mentions.