1999 BMW 528

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the latches/locks/linkages › doors › latch. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports	Fires	Injuries
Seat Belts › Front	1	0	0
Latches/Locks/Linkages › Doors › Latch	1	0	0
Exterior Lighting › Headlights	1	1	1

What owners reported

Newest filings

Exterior Lighting › HeadlightsFire1 injured

Filed Apr 17, 2007120,000 milesOH

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1999 BMW 528. WHILE TRAVELING 55 MPH THE CONTACT ATTEMPTED TO ACTIVATE THE HEADLIGHTS, AND THEY BEGAN BLINKING ,AND THE CONTACT SMELLED SMOKE COMING FROM THE INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. HE LIFTED THE HOOD, AND ATTEMPTED TO DISCONNECT THE BATTERY CABLE, BUT IT WAS TOO LATE. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WAS NOTIFIED, BUT BY THE TIME THEY ARRIVED THE VEHICLE WAS ON FIRE. THE CURRENT MILEAGE IWAS 121,000 , AND FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 120,000.*AK

Seat Belts › Front

Filed Nov 25, 2002PA

CONSUMER STATED AFTER LOCKING THE DRIVER SIDE SEAT BELT, THE LAP BELT BECAME UNBOLTED FROM THE FLOOR BOARD. DEALER AND MANUFACTURER HAD BEEN CONTACTED. TS AS OF 12/21/2002 THE DEFECT HAS BEEN REPAIRED AT NO CHARGE TO CONSUMER. *JG *JB

Latches/Locks/Linkages › Doors › Latch

Filed Jan 3, 2002TX

WHILE OPENING DRIVER'S DOOR KNOB FELL OFF IN CONUSMER'S HAND. DEALER WAS CONTACTED, AND AND REPLACED KNOB. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1997

Year	Complaints	Fires	Assessment
2000	5	2	Routine
1999 — this page	3	1	Routine
1998	7	0	Routine
1997	13	1	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.