Recall · 22V670000
BMW of North America recalled the BMW X7 over seats
246
Vehicles covered
1
Model
4
Model years
September 7, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2019-2022 BMW X7 xDrive40i, X7 Drive50i, X7 M50i vehicles with third-row seats. One or more of the compression springs that lock the backrest may not have been installed properly, and could dislodge or detach.
- What it can cause
- In a crash, the seat backrest may not fully lock, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will inspect the third-row seat and, if necessary, remove and reinstall improperly installed compression springs, and reinstall any missing springs, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 4, 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 246 vehicles this is a small campaign: 58% 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 model years 2019 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the seats 10 times before this, most recently in March 2021 as 21V156000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 162 complaints with NHTSA, 17 of them before this campaign was filed. 16 of those name the seats, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in April 2019, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 13 other recalls published here, the newest being: 25V644000 (electrical system), 24V576000 (electrical system), 22V267000 (visibility), 21V156000 (seats).
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 September 7, 2022 as campaign 22V670000. 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 2022-09-07.
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