2003 BMW 1 Series

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Air Bags	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Air Bags

Filed Jun 29, 2016CA

TAKATA RECALL: RECALL NO: 15V-318 HI THERE, I RECEIVED A NOTICE IN JULY 2015 REGARDING THE DRIVER SIDE FRONT AIRBAG I CONTACTED MY LOCAL DEALER: BOB SMITH BMW 24500 CALABASAS RD, CALABASAS, CA 91302-2509 THEY KEEP TELLING ME THAT THEY DO NOT HAVE THE PARTS FOR THEM TO MAKE THE REPAIR. THIS HAS BEEN 1 YEAR SINCE WE RECEIVED THE RECALL NOTICE. YOURS SINCERELY..........[XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2011

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Assessment
2012	0	1	0	Routine
2011	33	3	2	Routine
2010	8	3	0	Routine
2009	18	2	0	Routine
2008	18	3	0	Routine
2007	6	0	0	Routine
2006	5	0	0	Routine
2005	3	0	0	Routine
2004	3	0	0	Routine
2003 — this page	1	0	0	Routine
2002	1	0	0	Routine
2001	1	0	0	Routine
2000	1	0	0	Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.