Recall · 23V211000
BMW of North America recalled 4 models over seats
51
Vehicles covered
4
Models
9
Model years
March 29, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SEATS
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2019-2021 330i, 330i xDrive, M340i xDrive, 2020-2021 X3 sDrive30i, X3 xDrive30i, X3 M40i, X3M, 2021 X3 xDrive30e, X4 xDrive30i, and X4M vehicles. The seat frame may not have been welded properly to the seat rails.
- What it can cause
- An improperly welded seat frame may not properly restrain the occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the seat frame and back rest, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed May 22, 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 51 vehicles this is a small campaign: 78% 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 2021, so the oldest vehicles on it were 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the seats 12 times before this, most recently in December 2022 as 22V942000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 8 of the 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 405 complaints with NHTSA, 69 of them before this campaign was filed. 4 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 August 2019, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 20 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V438000 (electrical system), 26V056000 (electrical system), 25V636000 (electrical system), 24V764000 (structure).
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 March 29, 2023 as campaign 23V211000. 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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