Recall · 24V534000
BMW of North America recalled the BMW X3 over structure
282,387
Vehicles covered
1
Model
6
Model years
July 17, 2024
Filed with NHTSA
STRUCTURE
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2018-2023 X3 sDrive30i, X3 xDrive30i, X3 M40i, and X3 M vehicles. The attachment for the interior cargo rail may become damaged in a rear crash and result in the cargo rail detaching.
- What it can cause
- Interior cargo rail detachment during a rear crash can increase the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the rear cargo rail attachment bolts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed January 2, 2024. 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.safercar.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 282,387 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 96% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2018 to 2023, so the oldest vehicles on it were 6 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the structure 15 times before this, most recently in February 2024 as 24V139000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 6 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 535 complaints with NHTSA, 230 of them before this campaign was filed. 73 of those name the structure, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in February 2018, 6 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), 25V106000 (latches/locks/linkages).
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 17, 2024 as campaign 24V534000. 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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