Recall · 25V616000
BMW of North America recalled 6 models over seat belts
1,571
Vehicles covered
6
Models
11
Model years
September 17, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:FRONT:RETRACTOR
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC is recalling certain 2025-2026 X1 and X2, MINI Cooper Convertible, MINI Cooper, Mini Countryman S ALL4, and 2025 MINI Countryman SE ALL4 vehicles. The torsion bar in both front seat belt retractors may have been damaged during production.
- What it can cause
- A damaged seat belt retractor may not properly restrain an occupant during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace both front seat belt retractors, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed November 13, 2025. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) will be searchable on NHTSA.gov on November 7, 2025.
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 .
| Vehicle | Model years | Safety record |
|---|---|---|
| BMWX1 | 2025 to 2026 | 2025 |
| BMWX2 | 2025 to 2026 | Not published here |
| MINICooper | 2025 to 2026 | Not published here |
| MINICooper Convertible | 2025 to 2026 | Not published here |
| MINICountryman S ALL4 | 2025 to 2026 | Not published here |
| MINICountryman SE ALL4 | 2025 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 1,571 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 63% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2025 to 2026, and the defect was reported to NHTSA in 2025, at or before the oldest model year it covers — as current as a recall gets.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the seat belts 12 times before this, most recently in May 2024 as 24V345000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 1 of the 11 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 14 complaints with NHTSA, 4 of them before this campaign was filed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 6 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V422000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V717000 (seat belts), 24V829000 (structure), 24V711000 (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 September 17, 2025 as campaign 25V616000. 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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