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2015 BMW X5 — Complaint #1807745

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT filed April 18, 2022

NHTSA complaint #1807745 (ODI reference 11461101) concerns a 2015 BMW X5 and was filed on April 18, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on April 14, 2022. The vehicle had 140,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline:constant velocity joint, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same BMW X5 cohort independently describe similar power train:driveline:constant velocity joint failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2015 BMW X5 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2015 BMW X5
Component
POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT
State
Texas
Mileage
140,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2015 BMW X5. The contact stated that while his wife was driving 65 MPH, the front driveshaft detached and damaged the transmission. The contact stated that no warning light was illuminated. The dealer stated that the U-joint had dislodged and caused the failure. The vehicle was towed to the dealer. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was informed of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 140,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1807745
ODI Number 11461101
Date Filed April 18, 2022
Failure Date April 14, 2022
VIN 5UXKR0C50F0

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.