2024 BMW X7 — Complaint #2162278
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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL (ESC) filed January 2, 2026
NHTSA complaint #2162278 (ODI reference 11708283) concerns a 2024 BMW X7 and was filed on January 2, 2026. The owner reports the failure occurred on August 2, 2025. The vehicle had 10,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Florida based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electronic stability control (esc), 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 electronic stability control (esc) 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 his wife was driving, the braking system malfunctioned, and the vehicle hesitated to respond upon depressing the brake pedal. Additionally, the steering wheel became extremely difficult to turn. Several unknown warning lights were illuminated. The vehicle was towed to the local dealer, where a software update was performed, and the vehicle was repaired. The contact stated that the failures later recurred intermittently, rendering the vehicle unsafe to drive. The contact was informed that the VIN was included in NHTSA Campaign Number: 24V104000(Electronic Stability Control(ESC), Service Brakes, Hydraulic), but the recall remedy parts were not available. The failure mileage was 10,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2162278 |
| ODI Number | 11708283 |
| Date Filed | January 2, 2026 |
| Failure Date | August 2, 2025 |
| VIN | 5UX23EM04R9 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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