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BMW 545I: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the BMW 545I, model years 2004 to 2005. NHTSA has 112 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 2 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. 20040
  2. 20050
BMW 545I: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2005 BMW 545I073130%
2004 BMW 545I03970%

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

184 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 545I: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags293.554
Power Train12523
Electrical System119.622
Seat Belts70.713
Engine54.310
Service Brakes, Hydraulic48.99
Steering43.58
Seats387
Service Brakes32.66
Engine and Engine Cooling27.25

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 545I, by the year NHTSA received the report.
Complaints about the BMW 545I, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2012, with 20 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 250 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 545I: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/545i/. 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 545I model years have the most recall campaigns?
No model year of this line has a recall campaign in the NHTSA file.
Which BMW 545I model year has the most complaints?
The 2005 model year, with 73 of the 112 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 545I name?
Air Bags: 293.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Power Train: 125 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 119.6 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the BMW 545I?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.