ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:CONNECTORS/PLUGS/RECEPTACLES
An electrical short increases the risk of a fire.
6 safety recall campaigns, 2 defect investigations (1 open), 127 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.
An electrical short increases the risk of a fire.
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, increasing the risk of injury or death.
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants, resulting in serious injury or death.
Damaged lower anchor bars may increase the child's risk of injury in the event 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.
A failure of the brake vacuum pump results in a reduction in braking power that could increase the risk of a crash.
Two 2014 BMW X3s 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.