1996 BMW 850Cia

Routine

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

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Equipment1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Equipment
Filed May 29, 200227,000 milesNC

THE HEADLIGHT ADJUSTER FELL OFF, CONSUMER WAS UNABLE TO ADJUST HEADLIGHTS TO SEE WHILE DRIVING .*AK. CONSUMER STATED THE HEADLIGHT ADJUSTER WAS NOT A REPLACEMENT PART, AND THE ENTIRE HEADLIGHT ASSEMBLY NEEDED TO BE REPLACED.*JB

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1996
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1996 — this page1000Routine
19950100Routine
19940100Routine
19930100Routine
19920100Routine
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.