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BMW 540I

2019 BMW 540I

1 safety recall campaign, 14 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints14
Complaints citing a crash3
Complaints citing a fire0

Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.

Recall campaigns 1 of 1

19V6840002019-09-27

BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA

The lack of an image in the back-up camera display increases the risk of a crash.

What owners report most

  • 3UNKNOWN OR OTHER
  • 2VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
  • 1ENGINE
  • 1FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
  • 1FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
  • 1POWER TRAIN
  • 1POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION:LEVER AND LINKAGE:COLUMN SHIFT
  • 1VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:ACCELERATOR PEDAL

This page is about a model, not a car

Two 2019 BMW 540Is can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.

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