Recall · 21V586000
BMW of North America recalled 5 models over fuel system, diesel
11,216
Vehicles covered
5
Models
17
Model years
July 29, 2021
Filed with NHTSA
FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2014-2018 328d, 328d xDrive, X5 xDrive35d, 2014-2016 535d, 535d xDrive, 2015 740Ld xDrive, and 2015-2017 X3 xDrive28d vehicles. The high-pressure fuel pump may fail.
- What it can cause
- Fuel pump failure can cause an engine stall while driving, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the high-pressure fuel pump, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed on January 14, 2022. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 11,216 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 80% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2014 to 2018, so the oldest vehicles on it were 7 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the fuel system, diesel 2 times before this, most recently in August 2013 as 13V339000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 16 of the 17 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 1,022 complaints with NHTSA, 400 of them before this campaign was filed. 115 of those name the fuel system, diesel, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in December 2013, 7 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 7 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V700000 (fuel system, diesel), 24V608000 (engine and engine cooling), 24V527000 (air bags), 24V288000 (air bags).
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 29, 2021 as campaign 21V586000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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