2024 BMW X5
This year drew an ordinary 143 complaints for a BMW X5 — the model's median is 146. What they were about is the unusual part: 38.5% of them mention electronic stability, against 0% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 3 of the BMW X5, which began in 2019. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 143 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 146 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 8 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 25 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- electronic stability — 38.5% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (192.3×).
- service brakes — 38.5% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (192.3×).
- esc — 36.4% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the other years of this generation (181.8×).
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
after receiving the notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V104000 (ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC), SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC); the contact was informed that parts were still not available for the recall repair. The local dealer and manufacturer were not…
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V104000 (ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC), SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC); however, the part to do the recall repair was unavailable. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for t…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 23V471000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 23V622000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 24V104000 ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Fixed free of charge.
- 24V138000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V327000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 24V697000 ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Fixed free of charge.
- 24V739000 ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) Fixed free of charge.
- 26V422000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the BMW X5 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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