Recall · 25V644000
BMW of North America recalled 6 models over electrical system
145,102
Vehicles covered
6
Models
15
Model years
September 25, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2020 340I, X6, 2020-2025 840I, 2020-2022 740LI, 2019-2020 X7, and X5 vehicles. After repeated attempts, the starter motor may overheat from an electrical overload.
- What it can cause
- An overheated starter motor can ignite nearby combustible material in the engine compartment, increasing the risk of a fire.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge. This recall includes vehicles repaired under recall 24V576 and those owners will need to have their vehicle repaired again. Owner notification letters were mailed February 9, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov November 17, 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 .
How this campaign compares
At 145,102 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 94% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2025, 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 electrical system 48 times before this, most recently in September 2025 as 25V636000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 6 of the 15 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 403 complaints with NHTSA, 240 of them before this campaign was filed. 152 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 February 2019, 6 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 19 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V525000 (power train), 24V576000 (electrical system), 23V099000 (visibility), 22V670000 (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 September 25, 2025 as campaign 25V644000. 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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