BMW 318I by model year

98 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 318I across 7 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
1991	9
1992	8
1993	15
1994	19
1995	19
1996	3
1997	6

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Recalls	MPG
1997	6	1	22 to 23
1996	3	1	22 to 23
1995	19	2	21 to 22
1994	19	2	21 to 22
1993	15	2
1992	8	3	20
1991	9	1	19