2024 BMW X7 — Complaint #2034489
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:INTERIOR filed October 22, 2024
NHTSA complaint #2034489 (ODI reference 11621252) concerns a 2024 BMW X7 and was filed on October 22, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 3, 2024. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior, 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 X7 cohort independently describe similar visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior 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 2024 BMW X7 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2024 BMW X7. The contact stated that while using the key fob to unlock the doors, the doors failed to unlock. The contact was able to manually open the vehicle with the key. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was determined that the battery was installed backwards during the vehicle manufacturing process. Additionally, the contact stated that the interior rearview mirror housing was significantly loose. The dealer determined that both the interior rearview mirror assembly and the windshield needed to be replaced. Additionally, the contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V104000 (Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Service Brakes, Hydraulic); however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The local dealer was contacted. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact stated that the manufacturer had exceeded a reasonable amount of time for the recall repair. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileag
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2034489 |
| ODI Number | 11621252 |
| Date Filed | October 22, 2024 |
| Failure Date | August 3, 2024 |
| VIN | 5UX33EM09R9 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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