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BMW recall 25V748: inflator module, 5,361 vehicles

Bmw X5, model years 2000 to 2001. Filed by BMW of North America, LLC and reported to NHTSA on 31 October 2025. 5,361 vehicles potentially affected.

What the notice says BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2000-2001 X5 vehicles that may be equipped with a sport steering wheel containing a Takata PSDI-4 air bag inflator. The inflator may explode during deployment due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, temperature, …

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This is one of the small number of campaigns where owners are told not to drive the vehicle at all until it is repaired.

5,361vehicles potentially
affected
1model named
in the notice
0rewrites we have
caught
reported 31 October 2025owners told 29 December 2025today
The defect reached the regulator on 31 October 2025. Owners were written to 59 days later, on 29 December 2025. The median across the 14,860 American recalls that carry both dates is 41 days, and nine in ten owners are written to within 107. This campaign took longer than most.
Campaign25V748
Filed byBMW of North America, LLC
System at faultAir Bags:Frontal:Driver Side:Inflator Module
Reported to NHTSA31 October 2025
Model years2000-2001
Vehicles namedBMW X5

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 defect

BMW of North America, LLC (BMW) is recalling certain 2000-2001 X5 vehicles that may be equipped with a sport steering wheel containing a Takata PSDI-4 air bag inflator. The inflator may explode during deployment due to propellant degradation occurring after long-term exposure to high absolute humidity, temperature, and temperature cycling.

The consequence

An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.

The remedy

Owners are advised not to drive their vehicles until the remedy is complete. Dealers will inspect and replace the driver's front air bag, as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed December 29, 2025. Owners may contact BMW customer service at 1-800-525-7417. Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) involved in this recall will be searchable on NHTSA.gov beginning December 23, 2025. This recall expands previous NHTSA recall number 19V015.

What it said before

Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 10 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.

That copy hashes to a1e4f72298110776c88608add9bb9002…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.

This is one of 844 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 25V748, wording as read on 10 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/25v748/

The copy quoted above hashes to a1e4f72298110776c88608add9bb9002…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.

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.

The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.

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The fingerprint of this notice

We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 25V748 on 23 August 2026, they were:

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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