20V016000
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.
2010 BMW X5
14 safety recall campaigns, 4 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 1 defect investigation, 188 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
4 campaigns covering the 2010 BMW X5 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 campaigns14
Park it4stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints188
Complaints citing a crash2
Complaints citing a fire8
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 14
19V017000
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.
18V030000
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.
16V364000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:PASSENGER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator rupture may result in metal fragments striking the vehicle occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
23V707000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
Loose or broken VANOS unit bolts can result in an engine stall, increasing the risk of a crash.
20V017000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
What owners report most
- 40ENGINE
- 35AIR BAGS
- 22ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 19FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 13UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 12ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 8STEERING
- 6FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2010 BMW X5s 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.