BMW 1 Series by model year

134 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 1 Series across 5 model years. Choose a year for problems, recalls, fuel economy and crash ratings in one place.

Complaints by model year

Older model years have had longer to collect complaints, so a taller bar on an older year is not necessarily a worse year. The best and worst years page corrects for this.

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Model year	Complaints
2008	24
2009	23
2010	10
2011	44

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Most reported	Recalls
2012			1
2011	44	Air bags (34%)	2
2010	10		2
2009	23		1
2008	24		2