Recall · 23V079000
BMW of North America recalled 2 models over air bags
15,803
Vehicles covered
2
Models
4
Model years
February 14, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2022-2023 iX xDrive40, iX xDrive50, iX M60 and 2022-2023 X1 xDrive28i vehicles. The front driver's air bag may have been manufactured incorrectly and may not deploy as intended during a crash.
- What it can cause
- A driver's air bag that does not deploy as intended during a crash increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the driver's air bag, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 14, 2023. 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 15,803 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 82% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2022 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were one model year old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 56 times before this, most recently in February 2023 as 23V050000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 3 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 137 complaints with NHTSA, 11 of them before this campaign was filed. 17 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 17 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V422000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V395000 (electrical system), 25V470000 (electrical system), 24V739000 (electronic stability control (esc)).
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 February 14, 2023 as campaign 23V079000. 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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