BMW 540IA by model year

48 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 540IA across 10 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
1998	3
1999	11
2001	8
2002	3

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Recalls
2002	3	1
2001	8	3
1999	11	2
1998	3	1
1995		1
1994		1
1993		1
1992		1
1991		1
1990		1