Recall · 25V395000
BMW of North America recalled 6 models over electrical system
71,286
Vehicles covered
6
Models
11
Model years
July 23, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:PROPULSION SYSTEM:TRACTION MOTOR:CONTROLLER:SOFTWARE
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2022-2025 i4, 2022-2024 IX, 2023-2024 I7, and 2024 I5 vehicles. The electric drive motor software may shut down the high-voltage system, causing a loss of drive power.
- What it can cause
- A loss of drive power increases the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- The electric drive motor software will be updated over-the-air (OTA) or by a dealer, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed August 5, 2025. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
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 71,286 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 90% 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 2025, 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 electrical system 46 times before this, most recently in July 2025 as 25V470000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 10 of the 11 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 227 complaints with NHTSA, 161 of them before this campaign was filed. 67 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in July 2022, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 25 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V422000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V906000 (electrical system), 25V470000 (electrical system), 24V697000 (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 July 23, 2025 as campaign 25V395000. 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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