Recall · 21V520000
BMW of North America recalled the BMW X5 over air bags
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Vehicles covered
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Model
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Model years
July 8, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling one 2019 X5 xDrive 40i vehicle. The instrument panel may not have been manufactured correctly, which could prevent the passenger side air bag from deploying properly in a crash.
- What it can cause
- An air bag that does not deploy properly can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- A dealer will replace the instrument panel, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on July 26, 2021. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
- NHTSA's note
- The owner may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| BMWX5 | 2019 | 2019 |
How this campaign compares
At 1 vehicle this is a small campaign: 100% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 2019, so the oldest vehicles on it were 2 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 51 times before this, most recently in May 2021 as 21V401000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 1 model year the campaign names. Their owners have filed 181 complaints with NHTSA, 32 of them before this campaign was filed. 12 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2019, 2 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V644000 (electrical system), 24V576000 (electrical system), 22V267000 (visibility), 21V096000 (back over prevention).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by BMW of North America, LLC with NHTSA on July 8, 2021 as campaign 21V520000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2021-07-08.
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