1997 BMW 530

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › headlights. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Exterior Lighting › Headlights1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Exterior Lighting › Headlights
Filed Jun 28, 1999NJ

INTERIOR MULTIFUNCTION DISPLAY NOT FUNCTIONING CORRECTLY. CAR 2.5 YRS OLD. DEALER DIAGNOSES, MOISTURE GETTING INTO UNIT, REPLACEMENT COST $650. ENVIRONMENT SEALS FAILING. SHOULD THIS BE A MANUFACTURING DEFECT?

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20024110Do not drive
20017120Do not drive
19991000Routine
1997 — this page1000Routine
19953000Routine
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.