2016 BMW 335i

Routine

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

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Unknown or Other	1		0	0	0
Power Train	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Power Train

Filed Feb 14, 2023NY

My vehicle functioned normally without any faults for the approximately year and a half/ ~20,000 miles I used it. The one day I attempt to start my vehicle in colder weather (-6 degrees fahrenheit) and my starter fried and my engine seized up. I have heard of other occurrences like this happening where BMW owners attempted to start their vehicles in colder weather, have a fault come up as "starter/ignition malfunction" and then leading to an engine seizing. I believe this to be a faulty product from BMW.

Unknown or Other

Filed Dec 10, 201730,500 milesCO

DRIVING AT HIGHWAY SPEED, WITH NO CARS IN FRONT AND NO OVERPASS, THE FRONT SUNROOF PANEL SPONTANEOUSLY EXPLODED. THE EDGES OF THE REMAINING GLASS BULGE UPWARD AND THE CENTER OF THE GLASS PANEL IS GONE.

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2007

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2016 — this page	2	0	0	0	Routine
2015	10	3	0	0	Routine
2014	20	5	1	0	Routine
2013	43	2	0	0	Routine
2012	22	3	0	0	Routine
2011	97	7	1	0	Routine
2010	41	4	2	0	Routine
2009	85	4	6	0	Routine
2008	201	4	8	1	Fatalities reported
2007	288	5	9	0	Above average
2006	0	3	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.