Recall · 25V837000
BMW of North America recalled 4 models over air bags
25
Vehicles covered
4
Models
4
Model years
December 4, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:CRITICAL FASTENERS
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2026 X6, X7, X5, and X5 Plug-In Hybrid vehicles. The instrument panel may have been manufactured incorrectly and prevent the passenger-side air bag from deploying properly.
- What it can cause
- An air bag that does not deploy properly can increase the risk of injury during a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the instrument panel trim, free of charge. The vehicles have not been sold from dealer inventory and therefore, no owner letters will be mailed. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall became searchable on NHTSA.gov on December 4, 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 25 vehicles this is a small campaign: 85% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published are as large or larger. 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 air bags 68 times before this, most recently in October 2025 as 25V748000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 2 of the 4 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 23 complaints with NHTSA.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 2 other recalls published here: 25V671000 (visibility), 25V556000 (visibility).
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 December 4, 2025 as campaign 25V837000. 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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