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Complaints are consumer reports and have not been verified by NHTSA.

Model years

"vs line average" is the model year's complaints as a share of the line's average per model year (100% = average). A campaign covering several model years counts once per year. Model years with one campaign and fewer than 25 complaints are listed but have no page of their own; the NHTSA link opens the agency's record.

Other BMW model lines

• X5 193 recalls · 1,660 complaints
• 328I 78 recalls · 1,421 complaints
• 325I 64 recalls · 1,295 complaints
• Z4 60 recalls · 1,101 complaints
• 3 Series 18 recalls · 835 complaints
• X3 126 recalls · 751 complaints
• 335I 40 recalls · 658 complaints
• 330I 90 recalls · 556 complaints
• 323I 33 recalls · 531 complaints
• 528I 28 recalls · 445 complaints
• 5 Series 38 recalls · 421 complaints
• 530I 61 recalls · 419 complaints
• 525I 43 recalls · 397 complaints
• M3 82 recalls · 384 complaints
• 328XI 32 recalls · 382 complaints
• 750LI 27 recalls · 378 complaints
• 535I 26 recalls · 309 complaints
• 325XI 45 recalls · 284 complaints
• X3 SAV 10 recalls · 274 complaints
• 330CI 20 recalls · 272 complaints
• 325 37 recalls · 222 complaints
• 325CI 22 recalls · 219 complaints
• X5 SAV 30 recalls · 201 complaints
• K1200LT 0 recalls · 190 complaints
• Z3 4 recalls · 189 complaints
• 550I 19 recalls · 167 complaints
• 330XI 47 recalls · 166 complaints
• X1 SAV 12 recalls · 162 complaints
• 540I 41 recalls · 153 complaints
• R1200 GS 38 recalls · 140 complaints
• 745LI 10 recalls · 138 complaints
• R1200 RT 15 recalls · 136 complaints
• 335XI 24 recalls · 135 complaints
• 535XI 2 recalls · 135 complaints
• 530XI 4 recalls · 134 complaints
• 740IL 9 recalls · 131 complaints
• 135I 26 recalls · 127 complaints
• 7 Series 18 recalls · 123 complaints
• 745I 10 recalls · 122 complaints
• 750I 22 recalls · 121 complaints
• 318 17 recalls · 118 complaints
• 128I 34 recalls · 112 complaints
• 545I 0 recalls · 112 complaints
• X6 95 recalls · 101 complaints
• 1 Series 8 recalls · 97 complaints
• 740I 42 recalls · 90 complaints
• 318I 12 recalls · 90 complaints
• 328 8 recalls · 85 complaints
• R 1200 RT 21 recalls · 77 complaints
• 525 11 recalls · 72 complaints
• 650I 6 recalls · 72 complaints
• M5 45 recalls · 68 complaints
• 335 8 recalls · 66 complaints
• K1300 S 8 recalls · 65 complaints
• K1200 GT 14 recalls · 60 complaints
• K1300 GT 7 recalls · 54 complaints
• 320I 31 recalls · 49 complaints
• R 1200 GS 22 recalls · 49 complaints
• I3 16 recalls · 48 complaints
• 328D 27 recalls · 47 complaints

All 250 BMW model lines

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Provenance

Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation recall, complaint and investigation flat files, public domain, dated 29 Sep 2026 and 15 May 2019. Model names are as NHTSA records them; variants such as "Accord" and "Accord Hybrid" are separate lines. See the methodology.