Recall Register

BMW 735I: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 3 recall campaigns for the BMW 735I, model years 1987 to 1995. NHTSA has 29 complaints on file for this model line. 3 of the 9 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. 19870
  2. 19881
  3. 19891
  4. 19902
  5. 19913
  6. 19923
  7. 19931
  8. 19941
  9. 19951
BMW 735I: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1995 BMW 735I NHTSA page1131%340,000
1994 BMW 735I NHTSA page100%340,000
1993 BMW 735I NHTSA page100%340,000
1992 BMW 735I36186%595,000
1991 BMW 735I3262%595,000
1990 BMW 735I24124%520,000
1989 BMW 735I NHTSA page1393%340,000
1988 BMW 735I NHTSA page111341%340,000
1987 BMW 735I NHTSA page0262%

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

53 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 735I: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling43423
Electrical System132.17
Exterior Lighting75.54
Seats75.54
Service Brakes, Hydraulic75.54
Steering37.72
Visibility37.72
Vehicle Speed Control37.72
Tires18.91
Suspension18.91

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 735I, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1996, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the BMW 735I, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 10 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 250 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 735I: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/735i/. 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
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 735I model years have the most recall campaigns?
1992 with 3, 1991 with 3, 1990 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW 735I model year has the most complaints?
The 1988 model year, with 11 of the 29 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 735I name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 434 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 132.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 75.5 per 1,000 component mentions.