BMW 545I by model year

199 owner complaints are on file with NHTSA for the BMW 545I across 2 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
2004	78
2005	121

All model years

Model year	Complaints	Most reported	Recalls	MPG	Safety
2005	121	Air bags (31%)		17 to 19
2004	78	Air bags (24%)		17 to 19