1999 BMW 328Ic

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seats. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Seats1
000
Electrical System1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical SystemFire
Filed Jun 15, 2019166,500 milesGA

ON JUNE 14TH, MY CAR WAS PARKED, STATIONARY, KEY POSITION OFF, UNATTENDED, INTERIOR CAUGHT FIRE AND DESTROYED THE CAR. APPEARS TO BE AN INTERIOR FIRE BELIEVED TO BE ELECTRICAL. CAR WAS FACTORY ORIGINAL. THANK GOD THE CAR WAS IN THE YARD AND NOT IN THE CARPORT OR MY HOME WOULD HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.

Seats
Filed Oct 1, 2015100,000 milesAZ

DRIVER'S SEAT BACK COLLAPSED WHILST DRIVING.

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2000
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
200034000Routine
1999 — this page2010Routine
19975000Routine

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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.