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Bmw 3Ba-12Cm20, 3Ba-5F20, 3Ba-6K20, 3Da-5V20, 3Da-6L20, 3Ba-12Ap20. Published by MLIT as 1241550 on 25 February 2026. Part: 始動装置.

What the notice says BMW 220i, BMW 318i, BMW 318i Touring, BMW 320i, BMW 320i Touring, BMW 320d xDrive, BMW320dxDriveTouring, BMW 320d xDrive Tr., BMW 330i, BMW 420i クーペ, BMW 420i カブリオレ, BMW 420i グランクーぺ, BMW420dxDriveグランクーぺ, BMW 523i, BMW 523d xDrive, BMW523d xDriveツーリング, BMW 530i ツーリング, BMW X3 xDrive20i, BMW X3 xDrive20d, …

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Notification number
1241550
Notified
25 February 2026
Make
BMW(BMW)
Sold as
BMW 220i、BMW 318i、BMW 318i Touring、BMW 320i、BMW 320i Touring、BMW 320d xDrive、BMW320dxDriveTouring、BMW 320d xDrive Tr.、BMW 330i、BMW 420i クーペ、BMW 420i カブリオレ、BMW 420i グランクーぺ、BMW420dxDriveグランクーぺ、BMW 523i、BMW 523d xDrive、BMW523d xDriveツーリング、BMW 530i ツーリング、BMW X3 xDrive20i、BMW X3 xDrive20d、BMW X4 xDrive20d、BMW X4 xDrive30i、BMW Z4 sDrive 20i
Model codes
3BA-12CM20, 3BA-5F20, 3BA-6K20, 3DA-5V20, 3DA-6L20, 3BA-12AP20, 3BA-12AV20, 3DA-32AX20, 3BA-JR20S, 3DA-JF20, 3DA-JP20, 3BA-JT20T, 3BA-TY20, 3DA-UZ20, 3DA-VJ20, 3BA-2V20, 3BA-HF20
Part at fault
始動装置
Vehicles covered
23,650
Filed as
Recall, imported vehicle
Register
Japan — Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

What the ministry says is wrong

スタータにおいて、始動用リレーの耐久性が不十分なため、エンジン始動やアイドリングストップの繰返しにより接点が異常摩耗して、接点部に摩耗粉が堆積することがある。そのため、そのまま使用を続けると、エンジン始動不能となったり、最悪の場合、スタータ起動時または走行時等、火災に至るおそれがある。

What is to be done about it

全車両、当該スタータを対策品と交換する。

The two passages above are quoted in Japanese because that is the language the ministry published them in. This site keeps the wording a register had when it was read, and does not translate a safety notice.

Source: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism website (出典:国土交通省ウェブサイト), used under the Public Data License 1.0. This site gathered the record, grouped it by notification number and set it in English around the ministry's own words; the notice itself is unaltered. CarsMultiverse is not the ministry and not a safety authority. To act on this notice, use the ministry's own document.

The Japanese register on this site

BMW elsewhere in this register

BMW is named on 1 notices in the copy of MLIT’s register held here.

The same part: 始動装置

105 notices in this register name 始動装置. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.

Reading this against the source

This page is what MLIT published in the recall notices it publishes, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /japan, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.

This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Japanese recalls on a BMW: 409 in the register, and 201 Japanese vehicle recall notifications filed in 2026.

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