1996 BMW 318

Routine

Owners filed 5 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the equipment › appliance › air conditioner. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System2
000
Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly1
000
Equipment › Appliance › Air Conditioner1
000
Air Bags › Frontal1
101

What owners reported

Newest filings
Fuel System, Gasoline › Storage › Tank Assembly
Filed Aug 7, 200375,688 milesNV

THE VEHICLE HAD A GAS LEAK IN THE TANK. THE DEALER WAS NOTIFIED. *AK THE CONSUMER FILLED THE GAS TANK AND 15 MINUTES LATER ALL THE GAS LEAKED OUT. THE CONSUMER ALSO EXPERIENCED PROBLEMS WITH THE BRAKES, ENGINE, AND THE A/C PANEL WHICH INTERMITTENTLY WENT OUT. *SCC *JB

Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System
Filed Jul 29, 1999OH

WATER PUMP MALFUNCTIONED. *AK

Engine and Engine Cooling › Cooling System
Filed Jul 29, 1999OH

THE CONSUMER WAS DRIVING AND WATER PUMP/FAN BELT AND RADIATOR FAILED. *AK

Air Bags › FrontalCrash1 injured
Filed Dec 8, 1997CA

CONSUMER WAS DRIVING, WAS HIT BY ANOTHER VEHICLE IN THE FRONT RIGHT CORNER, HEAD ON, SEATBELTS WERE WORN AT THE TIME, AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY{DRIVER /PASSENGER}, CAUSING MINOR INJURIES AND BRUISES. *AK

Equipment › Appliance › Air Conditioner
Filed Apr 28, 1997CA

AIR CONDITIONER INOPERATIVE.

5 of 5 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1991
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20016010Routine
19983000Routine
19975000Routine
1996 — this page5000Routine
199519010Routine
199420100Routine
199317200Routine
199216400Routine
199121300Routine
19901100Routine

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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.