The Dutch register holds 50 distinct campaigns against the BMW X5; NHTSA has 47. It is one of the few nameplates where Europe’s file is the longer one, and there are 27,223 of them on Dutch roads.
2016–2025
all years on file
the Dutch road
The Dutch register holds 3 more distinct campaigns against the BMW X5 than NHTSA has recorded.
What those campaigns were about
NHTSA files every campaign against the system at fault. For the BMW X5, the American record breaks down like this: counted once per campaign, not once per model year.
| Electrical system | 9 |
|---|---|
| Equipment | 4 |
| Seats | 4 |
| Service brakes, hydraulic | 4 |
| Air bags | 3 |
| Suspension | 3 |
| Steering | 3 |
| Engine and engine cooling | 2 |
What this does not mean. A larger count on one side is not proof that the other country's owners were abandoned. Model variants differ between markets, an American campaign can cover an engine or body never sold in Europe, and a privately imported car has no national importer obliged to write to its owner, which is itself worth knowing. We publish the difference as a measured fact and an open question, never as an accusation.
Check whether a BMW X5 recall was quietly rewritten · check your own car, by country
US figures are distinct NHTSA campaign numbers for vehicle recalls, read from NHTSA's published bulk file, last read 10 September 2026. Dutch figures are campaigns recorded by the Netherlands vehicle register; the fleet count is the Netherlands vehicle register's vehicle register. One campaign counts once however many model years it covers.
What the X5 record is mostly about
Recalls are not interchangeable, and this model’s are not spread evenly. The single largest group is electrical system, with 9 of the 47 American campaigns filed against it, followed by equipment (4) and seats (4). The full breakdown is in the table above, counted once per campaign rather than once per model year: a single campaign covering six years of X5 production counts once here, which is not how most recall counts are quoted.
With 27,223 on the Dutch register, this is a common car here, which makes the difference between the two countries’ files worth more than a footnote.
Check a BMW X5
A recall lookup tells you what is open on your car today. It does not tell you whether the notice was edited after it was published: manufacturers revise them, and the new version replaces the old one on the public record. We keep the originals, hashed and dated. Check a BMW X5 against ours, or look your own car up by country.
How these two registers are compared, why most models cannot be compared at all, and which forty can: the method is here. Figures rebuild themselves from NHTSA’s bulk file and the Netherlands national vehicle register’s open data; freshness is public on the status page.
Every campaign, as the authority wrote it
6 of these campaigns are listed below. The page behind every number carries the fault, the fix and the wording as filed - and any later change to that wording.
- 25V837BMW recall 25V837: 2026 X6, X7, X5, and X5 Plug-In Hybrid
- 25V748BMW recall 25V748: inflator module, 5,361 vehicles
- 25V644BMW recall 25V644: BMW 340i, BMW 740li, BMW 840i and 3 more (2019 to 2025)
- 25V556BMW recall 25V556: 2026 X5 Plug-in Hybrid, X5, and X7
- 24V739BMW recall 24V739: BMW 530i, BMW 530i Xdrive, BMW 740i and 11 more (2023 to 2024)
- 24V576BMW of recall 24V576: BMW 340xi, BMW 740i, BMW 740xi and 7 more (2019 to 2021)
The rest of the BMW record
Every BMW campaign we hold, newest first, with the ones caught being rewritten marked.
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BMW X5 across the registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. BMW X5 is named on 57 American notices, 88 Canadian, 54 British, 49 European, 12 Japanese and 113 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules. Nothing here says any one of them is another one in a different country.
American
- BMW recall 11V441 - Model Year 2009 X5 Xdrive35d
- BMW recall 11V332 - Model Year 2011, X5 Diesel Sports Activity
- BMW recall 10V518 - MODEL YEAR 2008 X5 SAVs
Canadian
- Canadian recall 2021596 (BMW and 1 more), 2020 to 2021: High Voltage
- Canadian recall 2012396 (BMW), 2009 to 2012: Steering
- Canadian recall 2022095 (BMW), 2006 to 2013: Engine
British
- DVSA recall R/2002/106: Bmw X5 (Brake pedal may become detached)
- DVSA recall R/2003/026: Bmw X5 (Front brake hose could rub on tyre)
- DVSA recall R/2003/039: Bmw X5 (Seat belt tensioners)
European
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/00068/19: Bmw X3, X5, 7, 3, Z4, 5, 6, notified by Germany
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0061/13: Bmw X5, notified by Spain
- EU Safety Gate alert A12/0326/13: Bmw X5 4.8i, notified by Spain
Japanese
- Japanese recall 1220390 (BMW), 2014: 1,038 vehicles
- Japanese recall 1220380 (BMW), 2014: 243 vehicles
- Japanese recall 1209980 (BMW), 2003: 2,598 vehicles
Israeli
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