2015 BMW X5 — Complaint #1873030
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NHTSA Complaint about ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE:OIL/LUBRICATION:FILTER/SCREEN filed February 13, 2023
NHTSA complaint #1873030 (ODI reference 11507029) concerns a 2015 BMW X5 and was filed on February 13, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 7, 2023. The vehicle had 111,043 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as engine and engine cooling:engine:oil/lubrication:filter/screen, 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 engine and engine cooling:engine:oil/lubrication:filter/screen 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.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2015 BMW X5. The contact stated while driving 70 MPH, there was an erroneous message indicating the wrong fluid and that the vehicle had 200 miles before service was needed. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the contact was informed that the SCR system needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and stated that the vehicle was not covered because the failure was not under recall. The failure mileage was 111,043.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1873030 |
| ODI Number | 11507029 |
| Date Filed | February 13, 2023 |
| Failure Date | February 7, 2023 |
| VIN | 5UXKS4C5XF0 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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