Recall · 25V717000
BMW of North America recalled 6 models over seat belts
1,024
Vehicles covered
6
Models
6
Model years
October 21, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
SEAT BELTS:REAR/OTHER:RETRACTOR
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC is recalling certain 2026 2 Series Gran Coupe, X1, X2, and Mini Countryman S ALL4 vehicles. The housing pin in the rear (left and/or right) seat belt retractors may have been damaged during production, resulting in the retractor not locking the seat belt as intended. As such, these vehicles fail to comply to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard number 209, "Seat Belt Assemblies."
- 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 the rear (left and/or right) seat belts, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 18, 2025. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov December 12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BMW228I Gran Coupe | 2026 | Not published here |
| BMW228I Xdrive Gran Coupe | 2026 | Not published here |
| BMWM235I Xdrive Gran Coupe | 2026 | Not published here |
| BMWX1 | 2026 | Not published here |
| BMWX2 | 2026 | Not published here |
| MINICountryman S ALL4 | 2026 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 1,024 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 59% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers one model year, 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 13 times before this, most recently in September 2025 as 25V616000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 26V064000 (exterior lighting), 25V616000 (seat belts).
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 October 21, 2025 as campaign 25V717000. 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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