BMW 530E by model year

71 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 530E 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
2018	37
2019	20
2020	2
2021	2
2022	7
2023	3

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Most reported	Recalls	MPG
2023	3			25 to 26
2022	7			25 to 26
2021	2		2	25 to 26
2020	2		3	25 to 27
2019	20		2	28 to 29
2018	37	Seat belts (27%)	4	28 to 29
2017			1