1999 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 May 16, 2000LA

THE LOW BEAM DRIVER'SS IDE HEADLAMP CONTINUES TO FAIL. THEY HAVE REPLACED THE HALOGEN BULB, THE BULB HOLDER, AND THE LAMP LIGHTS FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN FAILS INTERMITTENTLY. THEY CANNOT FIND THE PROBLEM.

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20024110Do not drive
20017120Do not drive
1999 — this page1000Routine
19971000Routine
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.