1996 BMW 328Is

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system › ignition › switch. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Electrical System › Ignition › Switch1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › Ignition › Switch
Filed Jan 19, 2001PA

SOMETIMES WHEN PUTTING KEY INTO IGNITION KEY WILL GO AROUND 360 DEGREES, AND THEN SOMETIMES KEY GETS STUCK. *AK THE CONSUMER FOUND OUT THAT THERE WERE MINIMUN OF TWO VEHICLES PER MONTH THAT COME TO THE DEALER FOR THE SAME PROBLEM. *YH

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

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.