NHTSA Safety Recalls
BMW 325xi Recalls by Year
NHTSA's files hold 2 recall campaigns for the BMW 325xi, across 1 model year from 2001 to 2001.
- Model years
- 1
- Recall campaigns
- 2
- Most recalls
- 2001
- Owner complaints
- 306
2001–2001, with a recall
2 recalls
all model years, NHTSA
Owners have filed 306 complaints with NHTSA about the BMW 325xi across 7 model years; the most, 110, concern the 2006.
Owners marked a crash on 12 of the BMW 325xi complaints (4%) and a fire on 11.
Across all BMW 325xi model years, owners name the air bags most often (at least 141 complaints), then the electrical system (41).
NHTSA received the most complaints about the BMW 325xi in 2013: 45, across all model years.
The component recalled most often on the BMW 325xi is air bags, in 1 model-year listing.
The newest BMW 325xi recall, 20V018000, was reported on January 15, 2020 and concerns the air bags: frontal: passenger side: inflator module.
BMW 325xi years to avoid
Too few BMW 325xi model years have a complete complaint window to rank them: 0 of the 5 needed.
The ranking uses owner complaints in each model year's first years on the road, adjusted for NHTSA's complaint volume for that model year. It is not adjusted for sales and is not a reliability rating. Method
Recalls and complaints by model year
| Year | Recalls | Complaints | First years | vs median year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 0 | not ranked |
| 2006 | 0 | 110 | 0 | not ranked |
| 2005 | 0 | 27 | 1 | not ranked |
| 2004 | 0 | 55 | 5 | not ranked |
| 2003 | 0 | 31 | 0 | not ranked |
| 2002 | 0 | 68 | 6 | not ranked |
| 2001 | 2 | 14 | 0 | not ranked |
First years: complaints received from the year before the model year to three years after it.BMW 325xi years without a link have no recall page on this site.
What gets recalled most on the BMW 325xi
- AIR BAGS1
- AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE1
BMW 325xi model-year listings per recall component; one campaign can cover several years.
Every BMW 325xi recall campaign (2)
Vehicles: NHTSA's count of potentially affected vehicles in the whole campaign, not only the BMW 325xi. Each campaign page has the defect, risk and fix in NHTSA's words.
Newest record on this page: August 12, 2026. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted