Recall · 25V857000
BMW of North America recalled the BMW X3 over steering
36,922
Vehicles covered
1
Model
2
Model years
December 11, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
STEERING:STEERING CONTROL MODULE
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC is recalling certain 2025-2026 X3 vehicles. While the vehicle is stationary, unexpected steering wheel movement (rotation) may occur.
- What it can cause
- Unintended steering wheel movement while the vehicle is stationary increases the risk of an injury and on the road, a crash.
- What the dealer does
- The steering system software will be updated, free of charge, either over-the-air (OTA) or by a dealer. Owner notification letters were mailed February 6, 2026. 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 February 2, 2026.
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 36,922 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 87% 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 steering 22 times before this, most recently in March 2025 as 25V194000. 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 49 complaints with NHTSA, 19 of them before this campaign was filed. 12 of those name the steering, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in November 2024, 1 year before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 8 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V524000 (steering), 25V247000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V202000 (electrical system), 25V154000 (service brakes, hydraulic).
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 11, 2025 as campaign 25V857000. 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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