2019 BMW X3

10 safety recall campaigns, 228 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.

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The record

Recall campaigns10
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints228
Complaints citing a crash9
Complaints citing a fire1

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 6 of 10

24V7640002024-10-15

STRUCTURE

Interior rear cargo rail detachment during a crash can increase the risk of injury.

24V5340002024-07-17

STRUCTURE

Interior cargo rail detachment during a rear crash can increase the risk of injury.

21V5210002021-07-08

AIR BAGS:FRONTAL

A deactivated front air bag will not deploy in the event of a crash, increasing the risk of injury.

21V0960002021-02-19

BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA

If the driver relies on only the rearview camera image, the missing or reduced rearview image view can increase the risk of a crash or injury.

20V1520002020-03-18

AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE

In the event of a crash necessitating air bag deployment, the air bag could damage the instrument panel and cause small pieces of the panel to strike the driver or other occupants, increasing the risk of injury.

19V6840002019-09-27

BACK OVER PREVENTION: SENSING SYSTEM: CAMERA

The lack of an image in the back-up camera display increases the risk of a crash.

What owners report most

  • 44ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
  • 42UNKNOWN OR OTHER
  • 31ENGINE
  • 20STRUCTURE:BODY
  • 12SERVICE BRAKES
  • 9STRUCTURE
  • 7FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE: AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY BRAKING
  • 7POWER TRAIN

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Two 2019 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.

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