Recall · 25V871000
BMW of North America recalled 7 models over air bags
851
Vehicles covered
7
Models
9
Model years
December 17, 2025
Filed with NHTSA
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW:HEAD
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2014 4 Series Coupe (428i, 428i xDrive, 435i, 435i xDrive), 3 Series Sedan (320i, 320i xDrive, 328i, 328i xDrive, 335i, 335i xDrive), and 2014-2015 2 Series Coupe (228i, 228i xDrive, M235i, M235i xDrive) vehicles. The head air bag inflator may fail at the weld joint, which can cause gas to leak from the inflator or result in an inflator rupture.
- What it can cause
- An inflator that ruptures may cause sharp metal fragments to enter or exit the vehicle, increasing the risk of injury. Additionally, an inflator that leaks gas may only partially inflate during a crash, increasing the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the head air bags, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed February 12, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
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 851 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 57% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2014 to 2015, so the oldest vehicles on it were 11 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the air bags 69 times before this, most recently in December 2025 as 25V837000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for all 9 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 315 complaints with NHTSA, 302 of them before this campaign was filed. 29 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 November 2013, 12 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 3 other recalls published here: 24V608000 (engine and engine cooling), 24V527000 (air bags), 24V288000 (air bags).
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 17, 2025 as campaign 25V871000. 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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