Recall · 25V748000
BMW of North America recalled the BMW X5 over air bags
Do not drive until repaired. NHTSA issues this where it considers the risk immediate, and it stands until the repair is done.
5,361
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
October 31, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2000-2001 X5 vehicles that may be equipped with a sport steering wheel containing a Takata PSDI-4 air bag inflator. The inflator may explode during deployment due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, temperature, and temperature cycling.
- What it can cause
- An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
- What the dealer does
- Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until the remedy is complete. Dealers will inspect and replace the driver's front air bag, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 29, 2025. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 23, 2025. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 19V015.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BMWX5 | 2000 to 2001 | Not published here |
How this campaign compares
At 5,361 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 75% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2000 to 2001, so the oldest vehicles on it were 25 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 67 times before this, most recently in December 2024 as 24V910000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 2 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 189 complaints with NHTSA, 188 of them before this campaign was filed. 17 of those name the air bags, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in June 2000, 25 years before this filing.
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 31, 2025 as campaign 25V748000. 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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