BMW M2 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 70 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Lights42 (60.0%)
• Brakes6 (8.6%)
• Engine6 (8.6%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)4 (5.7%)
• Suspension4 (5.7%)
• Electrical system2 (2.9%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2018–2023.

Other / uncategorized: 4 classifications (5.7%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (60 records, model years 2016–2024) are most frequently classified under: lights, brakes and engine.
• Manufacturer communications (686 records, model years 2016–2026) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and brakes.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 32reports included a mileage
• 8,351average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2016 137 records for 2016 137
2. 2017 152 records for 2017 152
3. 2018 106 records for 2018 106
4. 2019 39 records for 2019 39
5. 2020 59 records for 2020 59
6. 2021 34 records for 2021 34
7. 2023 9 records for 2023 9
8. 2024 12 records for 2024 12
9. 2026 1 records for 2026 1

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 14
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 686
• Owner complaints NHTSA 60

Explore the underlying evidence records