BMW 5 Series
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BMW 530I headlights have faulty wiring. Insulation is crumbling an severly degraded leaving bare wires exposed to short circuits. Discovered the fa...
Unknown, the car shut down on me two time in a month.
battery problems, was supposedly recalled for it and now the car is dying and the alarm is going off in my driveway at 10:30pm after being off for hou...
in the trunk in the spare tire well. Water could be there, flooding some electronics. The wiring got wet causing my car to just turn off in the expre...
Coolant hose has broken 4 times in the last 3 years it breaks at the attachment causing all my coolant to leak the area and part is plastic causing it...
BMW Headlight wiring on the 530 series is defective. Wire Insulation throughout the headlight assembly crumbles. The design and wire specification w...
The front Xenon Headlight Wiring protective plastic coating has degraded and prematurely failed on both headlight assemblies. This caused headlight b...
I purchased my BMW & got inside to drive off jumping on 275 freeway & the whole car just started smoking out nowhere the whole car was scorching hot &...
Headlight wiring has disintegrated and making headlight short
Well was driving fine one day then the next it didn't do nothing an still hasn't done or moved since found that the module in the truck were the spare...
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Summary
The 2007 BMW 5 Series has 283 complaints and 0 recalls on record. The most commonly reported issue is Air Bags. 12 crash-related incidents have been reported.