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BMW 230I by model year

46 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 230I across 10 model years. Choose a year for problems, recalls, fuel economy and crash ratings in one place.

Complaints by model year

Total NHTSA complaints by model year, BMW 230I 0 8 15 2017: 14 '17 2018: 5 '18 2019: 1 '19 2020: 2 '20 2021: 1 '21 2022: 9 '22 2023: 4 '23 2024: 4 '24 2025: 5 '25 2026: 1 '26
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 yearComplaints
201714
20185
20191
20202
20211
20229
20234
20244
20255
20261

All model years

Model yearComplaintsMost reportedRecallsMPGSafety
2026 1 28 to 30
2025 5 28 to 30
2024 4 1 28 to 30
2023 4 3 28 to 29
2022 9 2 29
2021 1 2 24 to 28
2020 2 1 24 to 27
2019 1 1 25 to 28
2018 5 2 25 to 28
2017 14 25 to 28