1997 BMW 850Ci

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system › wiring. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Electrical System › Wiring1
010

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › WiringFire
Filed Dec 2, 1998CA

VEHICLE WA S SITTING IN GARAGE, 3 HOURS AFTER DRIVING, VEHICLE BEGAN TO SMOKE AND A SMALL FIRE STARTED. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ARRIVED AND BMW WAS CONTACTED AND TOWED TO STEERLING BMW 3000 W. COAST HWY NEWPORT BEACH, CA. 92663, (949-645-5900). DELEAR REFERRED CONSUMER TO BMW MFR. DUE TO FACT THERE WERE NO RECALLS. BMW WILL NOT HELP CONSUMER. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1997
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1997 — this page1010Routine
19950100Routine
19940200Routine
19931100Routine
19921100Routine
19910100Routine

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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.