EXHIBIT 99.1

                             COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

               This Compliance Certificate is furnished pursuant to Section 4.10
          of that certain Sale and Servicing Agreement dated as of May 1, 2001,
          among BMW Financial Services NA, LLC, as Seller, Servicer,
          Administrator and Custodian, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Indenture
          Trustee, BMW FS Securities LLC, as Depositor, and the BMW Vehicle
          Owner Trust 2001-A as Issuer (the "Sale and Servicing Agreement") (all
          capitalized terms used herein without definition have the respective
          meanings specified in the Sales and Servicing Agreement).

           THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CERTIFIES THAT:

           1.  I am a duly authorized officer of the Servicer;

           2.  I have reviewed the terms of the Sale and Servicing
               Agreement and I have made, or have caused to be made under
               my supervision, a detailed review of the transactions and
               conditions of the Servicer and the performance of its
               obligations there under during the period from January 1,
               2003 to December 31, 2003;

           3.  To my knowledge, based on the review described in paragraph
               2, the Servicer has fulfilled all its obligations under the
               Sale and Servicing Agreement, during the period from
               January 1, 2003 to December 31, 2003, except as set forth
               below.


               Described below are the exceptions, if any, to paragraph 3 by
          listing, in detail, the nature of the condition or event, the period
          during which it has existed and the action which the Servicer has
          taken, is taking, or proposes to take with respect to each such
          condition or event: NONE


               IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have affixed hereunto set my hand this 26th
          day of March, 2004.

           By:        BMW Financial Services NA, LLC

           By:        /s/ Gerald Holzmann
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                      Gerald Holzmann

           Title:     CFO