1997 BMW 735

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the equipment › mechanical › accessory scissor/screw/bottle jack/lift. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Equipment › Mechanical › Accessory Scissor/Screw/Bottle Jack/Lift1
001

What owners reported

Newest filings
Equipment › Mechanical › Accessory Scissor/Screw/Bottle Jack/Lift1 injured
Filed Jun 29, 1998FL

THE JACK ROLLS WHEN TRYING TO CHANGE THE TIRE. THE JACK,WHEN THE CAR IS UP AFTER ONE INCH FROM THE GROUND, IT WILL ROLL. THE PAD ON THE JACK AND THE RUBBER PLUG IN THE FRONT OF THE JACK WILL FALL OUT. THE INCIDENT OCCURS WHEN THE VEHICLE IS NOT ON FLAT SERVICE. DEALER CANNOT DUPLICATE THE PROBLEM. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1991
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19981000Routine
1997 — this page1000Routine
19930100Routine
19922100Routine
19915200Routine
19903200Routine

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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.