BMW 318IS by model year

37 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 318IS 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	7
1992	3
1993	13
1994	6
1995	6
1997	2

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Recalls	MPG
1997	2	1
1996		1
1995	6	2
1994	6	2
1993	13	2
1992	3	3
1991	7	1	19 to 21