1995 BMW 530

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the seats › front assembly › recliner. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Seats › Front Assembly › Recliner2
000
Power Train › Automatic Transmission1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Seats › Front Assembly › Recliner
Filed Apr 3, 1999SC

FRONT SEATS ARE LOOSE, WILL ROCK SLIGHTLY WHILE DRIVING. *AK

Seats › Front Assembly › Recliner
Filed Mar 25, 1998TN

DRIVER'S SEAT IS LOOSE, IT WILL ROCK BACK AND FORTH WHILE DRIVING. *AK

Power Train › Automatic Transmission
Filed Mar 6, 1995FL

ONCE CAR IS DRIVEN COMPUTER DISPLAY SHOWS SEE DEALER PROBLEM TRANSMISSION STUCK IN FOURTH GEAR. COULD CAUSE DRIVER TO BE BROADSIDED. TT

3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20024110Do not drive
20017120Do not drive
19991000Routine
19971000Routine
1995 — this page3000Routine
19945000Routine

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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.