Recall Register

1998 BMW 528I: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 1998 BMW 528I. NHTSA has 28 complaints on file for this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 1998 BMW 528I. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 28 complaints for it.

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

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

Complaints by component

28 complaints, 31 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. This model year has fewer than 50 component mentions, so the table shows the number of mentions only.

1998 BMW 528I: component mentions in complaints
ComponentMentions
Power Train4
Structure4
Steering4
Latches/Locks/Linkages3
Air Bags3
Vehicle Speed Control2
Electrical System2
Engine and Engine Cooling2
Exterior Lighting2
Unknown or Other1

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 14.

Complaints that report a crash
2
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
1
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
18 Mar 2010

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 1998 BMW 528I, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 7 complaints.

Investigations

The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

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

  1. 19790
  2. 19800
  3. 19970
  4. 19980
  5. 19990
  6. 20001
  7. 20010
  8. 20071
  9. 20082
  10. 20092
  11. 20102
  12. 20114
  13. 20124
  14. 20134
  15. 20143
  16. 20151
  17. 20164

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 1998 BMW 528I: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/528i/1998/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE

The NHTSA record is the authority. A complaint count is the number of different complaint numbers for the make, the model and the model year. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

How many recall campaigns does the BMW 528I have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 14 recall campaigns for the BMW 528I, model years 1979 to 2016. None of them names the 1998 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 1998 BMW 528I name most often?
Power Train: 4 of 31 component mentions.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 1998 BMW 528I open?
The NHTSA investigation file has no investigation that names this model year.