Recall · 26V056000
BMW of North America recalled 8 models over electrical system
87,394
Vehicles covered
8
Models
25
Model years
January 30, 2026
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
- The defect
- BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2021-2023 Toyota Supra, 2022-2023 2 Series Coupe, 2021-2024 5 Series (xDrive), 2021-2022 Z4, 2022-2024 4 Series (Gran Coupe), 2021-2024 4 Series (Convertible and xDrive Convertible), 2021-2023 4 Series (Coupe), 2021-2024 3 Series, 2021-2023 X4, 2021-2024 X3 vehicles. Please see the recall report for a complete list of all models. The engine starter may overheat and catch fire due to wear on an internal component.
- What it can cause
- Fire increases the risk of injury.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will replace the engine starter, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed July 21, 2026. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417 or Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning March 24, 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 87,394 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 91% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2021 to 2024, so the oldest vehicles on it were 5 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
BMW vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 51 times before this, most recently in December 2025 as 25V906000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 15 of the 25 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 324 complaints with NHTSA, 229 of them before this campaign was filed. 77 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in October 2020, 5 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 35 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V438000 (electrical system), 26V422000 (service brakes, hydraulic), 25V636000 (electrical system), 25V106000 (latches/locks/linkages).
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 January 30, 2026 as campaign 26V056000. 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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