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Parking brake failure on the 2024 BMW X5

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $250–$1,300
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 33rd

When parking brake failure gets reported

There are 1 report of parking brake failure on the 2024 BMW X5. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 33rd most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $250–$1,300 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 6 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 1,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 110,000 miles.

By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 9; the 2024 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 2001 BMW X5 parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 2005 BMW X5 parking brake failure 70k
  3. 2006 BMW X5 parking brake failure 105k
  4. 2007 BMW X5 parking brake failure 134k
  5. 2008 BMW X5 parking brake failure 69k
  6. 2009 BMW X5 parking brake failure 42k
  7. 2010 BMW X5 parking brake failure 108k
  8. 2011 BMW X5 parking brake failure 80k
  9. 2012 BMW X5 parking brake failure 66k
  10. 2013 BMW X5 parking brake failure 49k
  11. 2015 BMW X5 parking brake failure 3k
  12. 2017 BMW X5 parking brake failure 13k
  13. 2019 BMW X5 parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  14. 2020 BMW X5 parking brake failure 60k
  15. 2021 BMW X5 parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  16. 2022 BMW X5 parking brake failure 1k
  17. 2023 BMW X5 parking brake failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  18. 2024 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  19. 2025 BMW X5 parking brake failure 10k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2024 BMW X5

Other brake problem

73 reports median 5k

Other driver assistance problem

56 reports median 6k

Other electrical problem

15 reports median 149k

Other engine problem

14 reports median 99k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed