Total Complaints
2 filings
BMW 735 · model year
2 NHTSA complaints. A VIN lookup is required to determine whether a specific vehicle has an unrepaired recall.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The verdict
The 1992 BMW 735 posts top-quartile complaint standing among its own model-year siblings.
The 1992BMW735 carries 2 consumer safety complaints in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
The most frequently selected component label in reports for the 1992 735 is engine and engine cooling:cooling system with 1 filings, followed by seats (1). Complaint categories reflect owner reports and intake categorization; they do not establish a defect pattern or cause.
NHTSA currently has 34 investigation files overlapping the 1992 735. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should read the complaint-by-year trend as report volume, not a causal diagnosis. Use the related-complaint feed and the official recall lookup when researching a specific vehicle.
PlainCars' own composite of NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings and rollover-risk assessment, each dimension normalized against the federal scale or the full national model-year corpus. Not an official NHTSA figure, and not a substitute for a specific vehicle's VIN-level recall check.
Total Complaints
2 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM | 1 |
| SEATS | 1 |
WHILE DRIVING 50 MPH DRIVER'S SEAT TILTED TO RIGHT AND FELL BACKWARDS PART OF THE WAY. NOW STUCK IN THAT POSITION.*AK DEALER STATED THAT THE CABLE CAME OFF OF THE TRACK. *SLC
WHEN DRIVING VEHICLE IS ALWAYS OVERHEATING, CAUSING CONSUMER TO PULL OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD UNTIL VEHICLE COOL OFF. DEALER IS AWARE OF THIS PROBLEM, AND CAN'T DETERMINE THE CAUSE. ALSO, WHEN VEHICLE IS PARKED IT OVERHEATS. *AK
Data vintage: August 2026. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. This year-specific record is rendered from NHTSA ODI, recall, and NCAP rows for the 1992 BMW 735; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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