For every car sold, owners filed about as many complaints about the 2022 X3 as about the typical X3 year. Among the 3 X3 years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about this one, the 2022 (0.44 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2019 (0.76).
Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.
1.0 times this nameplate’s own median
Counted from 31 complaints filed in the first three years, of 87 ever. 95% lower bound 0.28. Not counted: 8 complaints that reported only that a recall repair was unavailable, not a failure.
This year’s generation (2018–2024) drew 0.48 complaints per 1,000 sold taken together, against 0.50 for the 2011–2017 generation.
The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters. The bar is how many complaints each rate rests on.
| Model year | Per 1,000 | Complaints | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 0.17 | 3 | |
| 2009 | 0.17 | 2 | |
| 2010 | 0.16 | 1 | |
| 2011 | 0.54 | 15 | |
| 2012 | 0.29 | 9 | |
| 2013 | 0.61 | 20 | |
| 2014 | 0.37 | 12 | |
| 2015 | 0.46 | 15 | |
| 2016 | 0.60 | 23 | |
| 2017 | 0.57 | 24 | |
| 2018 | 0.35 | 18 | |
| 2019 | 0.76 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 0.32 | 21 | |
| 2021 | 0.50 | 34 | |
| 2022 | 0.44 | 31 |
No phrase appears often enough in these complaints to describe them reliably.
Too few complaints record mileage for this model year to show a pattern. NHTSA largely stopped capturing mileage after 2021.
That is not a clean bill of health, and not a criticism of the agency: investigations open for many reasons and complaint volume is only one of them.
For every car sold, owners filed about as many complaints about the 2022 X3 as about the typical X3 year. Among the 3 X3 years with enough complaints to compare, owners filed the fewest about this one, the 2022 (0.44 per 1,000 sold) and the most about the 2019 (0.76). The typical year is the median across its model years.
The parts owners named most often in complaints filed to date: Unknown Or Other (21), Electrical System (19), Structure (12).
Complaint records cannot settle that on their own. They count safety problems owners chose to report to the federal government, not every repair. What they do show is how this year compares with the other X3 years: for every car sold, owners filed about as many complaints about the 2022 X3 as about the typical X3 year.
Among years with enough complaints to compare, the 2022, at 0.44 per 1,000 sold. Every X3 year, ranked.
No guide we read covers the X3.
Example records behind this page, each on NHTSA’s own site: