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BMW recall 16V364: BMW X5, BMW X6, BMW X6 Activehybrid Sac (2007 to 2011)

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Bmw X5, Bmw X6, Bmw X6 Activehybrid Sac, model years 2007 to 2011. Filed by BMW of North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 25 May 2016. 97,738 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain model year 2007-2011 X5 xDrive30i, X5 xDrive35i, X5 xDrive48i, X5 xDrive50i and X5M vehicles, 2009-2011 X5 xDrive35d vehicles, 2008-2011 X6 xDrive35i, X6 xDrive50i and X6 M vehicles, and 2010-2011 X6 ActiveHybrid vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in …

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Which vehicles does recall 16V364 cover?
BMW X5, BMW X6, BMW X6 Activehybrid Sac, model years 2007-2011.
What is wrong with them?
BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain model year 2007-2011 X5 xDrive30i, X5 xDrive35i, X5 xDrive48i, X5 xDrive50i and X5M vehicles, 2009-2011 X5 xDrive35d vehicles, 2008-2011 X6 xDrive35i, X6 xDrive50i and X6 M vehicles, and 2010-2011 X6 ActiveHybrid vehicles originally sold, or ever...
What can happen if it is not put right?
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
Is there a fix yet?
Yes, and it is free. Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until they have been repaired. BMW will notify owners, and dealers will replace the passenger frontal air bag inflator or air bag module, free of charge. The recall began July 28, 2017. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.
What should I do now?
Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on.

Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.

What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.”

97,738vehicles potentially
affected
3models named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 25 May 2016owners told 28 July 2017today
The defect reached the regulator on 25 May 2016. Owners were written to 429 days later, on 28 July 2017. The median across the 14,869 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign is in the slowest tenth of the register.
Campaign16V364
Filed byBMW of North America, LLC
System at faultAir Bags:Frontal:Passenger Side:Inflator Module
Reported to NHTSA25 May 2016
Model years2007-2011
Vehicles namedBMW X5, BMW X6, BMW X6 ACTIVEHYBRID SAC

This is not an ordinary campaign.

  • Owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all. NHTSA applies this to a small minority of campaigns. 28 of the 1,399 we currently hold.

What the notice says today

The consequence

An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.

The remedy

Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until they have been repaired. BMW will notify owners, and dealers will replace the passenger frontal air bag inflator or air bag module, free of charge. The recall began July 28, 2017. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417.

What it said before

This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.

This is one of 846 notices in the record whose component field names air bags. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 46 days.

Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.

The models named here, across their whole recall history

How to cite this record

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CarsMultiverse, recall 16V364, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v364/

The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.

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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.

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