3 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 80 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
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.
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.
A failure of the brake vacuum pump results in a reduction in braking power that could increase the risk of a crash.
A failure of the brake vacuum pump results in a reduction in braking power that could increase the risk of a crash.
Two 2013 BMW X1 SAVs 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.