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Complaints by Make

BMW Complaints

3,544 complaints across 109 models. 233 crash reports.

Owners have filed 3,544 complaints with NHTSA against 17 BMW models in our index, covering model years 2015 to 2025. 233 of those reports describe a crash.

The problem areas owners report most often across BMW vehicles are engine (1,079), other (546) and brakes (461). A high count on a widely sold model is not by itself evidence of a defect — complaints scale with how many cars are on the road, and NHTSA publishes them unverified, as filed.

The most-reported single model year here is the 2019 BMW X5, with 179 complaints, 4 of them citing a crash. Open any model year below for the individual reports and the components involved.

Complaints by Model

17 models · 109 years

2 Series

2016–2021

40 complaints

3 Series

2016–2022

351 complaints

4 Series

2016–2022

146 complaints

5 Series

2016–2022

250 complaints

7 Series

2017–2022

34 complaints

8 Series

2019–2022

19 complaints

I4

2022

9 complaints

I7

2025

1 complaint

Ix

2022–2025

110 complaints

X1

2016–2025

515 complaints

X2

2018–2025

23 complaints

X3

2016–2025

766 complaints

X4

2016–2024

66 complaints

X5

2016–2025

871 complaints

X7

2019–2025

269 complaints

Z4

2016–2022

15 complaints