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2004 BMW 745LI: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2004 BMW 745LI. NHTSA has 33 complaints on file for this model year. 2 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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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.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2004 BMW 745LI. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 33 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

33 complaints, 50 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.

  • 2004 BMW 745LI
  • All 2004 vehicles
2004 BMW 745LI: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2004 745LIAll 2004 vehicles745LI, all yearsMentions
Power Train240113.4146.712
Air Bags18078.9155.69
Engine12036.957.86
Seats6018.117.83
Service Brakes, Hydraulic6044.157.83
Seat Belts6013.553.33
Structure4073.3402
Engine and Engine Cooling4060.766.72
Electrical System40129.397.82
Vehicle Speed Control4041.3402

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 15.

Complaints that report a crash
1
Complaints that report a fire
1
Injuries in the complaints
0
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
15 May 2023

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

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.

Complaints about the 2004 BMW 745LI, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2011, with 9 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2004 BMW 745LI
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
EA12002Engineering analysisVehicle RollawayElectrical System10 Apr 201224 Jan 201312V502000
PE11025Preliminary evaluationVehicle RollawayElectrical System5 Aug 201123 Apr 2012

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other 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

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2004 BMW 745LI: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/bmw/745li/2004/. 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
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the BMW 745LI have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 6 recall campaigns for the BMW 745LI, model years 2002 to 2008. None of them names the 2004 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2004 BMW 745LI name most often?
Power Train: 12 of 50 component mentions, or 240 per 1,000. For all 2004 vehicles the figure is 113.4 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2004 BMW 745LI open?
No. Each of the 2 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.