Recall Register

BMW 745LI: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the BMW 745LI, model years 2002 to 2008. NHTSA has 138 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 7 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. 20022
  2. 20032
  3. 20040
  4. 20053
  5. 20061
  6. 20071
  7. 20081
BMW 745LI: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2008 BMW 745LI NHTSA page100%45,484
2007 BMW 745LI NHTSA page100%45,484
2006 BMW 745LI NHTSA page100%45,484
2005 BMW 745LI325127%98,469
2004 BMW 745LI032162%
2003 BMW 745LI247238%7,870
2002 BMW 745LI234172%13,882

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

218 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 745LI: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train151.433
Air Bags146.832
Electrical System100.922
Engine and Engine Cooling68.815
Service Brakes, Hydraulic59.613
Seat Belts5512
Engine5512
Vehicle Speed Control41.39
Structure41.39
Fuel System, Gasoline36.78

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the BMW 745LI, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2003, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the BMW 745LI, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2011, with 27 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

BMW: all 250 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. BMW 745LI: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/745li/. 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 745LI model years have the most recall campaigns?
2005 with 3, 2003 with 2, 2002 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which BMW 745LI model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 47 of the 138 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the BMW 745LI name?
Power Train: 151.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 146.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Electrical System: 100.9 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the BMW 745LI?
4 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.