2008 BMW X5
This year drew 333 complaints against a median of 143 across the BMW X5's other years, 2.3× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 10 recalls, listed below.
Generation 1 of the BMW X5, which began in 2007 and ran to 2013. 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 | 333 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 143 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 15 |
| Recalls | 10 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 19V017000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V017000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 20V016000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V030000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 17V020000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
- 16V746000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 17V683000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 16V364000 AIR BAGS Fixed free of charge.
Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.
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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