Recall · 23V584000
BMW of North America recalled 5 models over seat belts
144
Vehicles covered
5
Models
15
Model years
August 16, 2023
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2019-2022 330i, 330i xDrive, M340i, 2022 430i Coupe, 2021-2022 430i, M440i Convertible, and 2020-2022 228i xDrive Gran Coupe vehicles. The receiver audio module control unit software may fail to properly generate audible seat belt warnings to the driver to fasten their seat belt. As such, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 208, "Occupant Crash Protection."
- What it can cause
- An audible chime that does not properly alert the driver to fasten their seat belt increases the risk of injury in a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will update the receiver audio module software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 12, 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 144 vehicles this is a small campaign: 65% 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 4 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 10 times before this, most recently in April 2023 as 23V260000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 10 of the 15 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 225 complaints with NHTSA, 43 of them before this campaign was filed. 3 of those name the seat belts, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in August 2019, 4 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 17 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V056000 (electrical system), 25V636000 (electrical system), 24V576000 (electrical system), 23V211000 (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 August 16, 2023 as campaign 23V584000. 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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