Recall Register

BMW 635: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the BMW 635, model years 1985 to 1989. NHTSA has 3 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 5 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. 19851
  2. 19862
  3. 19871
  4. 19880
  5. 19890
BMW 635: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1989 BMW 635 NHTSA page01167%
1988 BMW 635 NHTSA page01167%
1987 BMW 635 NHTSA page100%97,300
1986 BMW 635200%97,304
1985 BMW 635 NHTSA page11167%40

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

3 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 635: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Steering666.72
Air Bags333.31

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 635, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2013, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the BMW 635, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1996, with 2 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 252 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 635: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/635/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE

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 635 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1986 with 2, 1987 with 1, 1985 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW 635 model year has the most complaints?
The 1985 model year, with 1 of the 3 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 635 name?
Steering: 2 component mentions. Air Bags: 1 component mention.
How many NHTSA investigations name the BMW 635?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.