20V018000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2003 BMW 330CI
3 safety recall campaigns, 3 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 18 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
3 campaigns covering the 2003 BMW 330CI carry NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns3
Park it3stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints18
Complaints citing a crash1
Complaints citing a fire0
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 3 of 3
15V318000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the driver's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
13V172000
AIR BAGS
In the event of a crash necessitating deployment of the passenger's frontal air bag, the inflator could rupture with metal fragments striking and potentially seriously injuring the passenger seat occupant or other occupants.
What owners report most
- 9AIR BAGS
- 3ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 1ENGINE
- 1EXTERIOR LIGHTING:TURN SIGNAL
- 1POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 1STRUCTURE
- 1STRUCTURE:BODY
- 1TIRES:SIDEWALL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2003 BMW 330CIs can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.