3 recalls across 10 model years
The BMW 325 has 3 recalls, all of them involving the driver-side frontal airbag inflator, with the defect affecting model years 2000-2002 and 2006-2012: in a crash where the airbag deploys, the inflator can rupture and send metal fragments into the cabin, risking serious injury or death to the driver or passengers.
These three recalls are part of the broader Takata airbag recall campaign and cover different production windows and configurations. On 2006-2012 models, the affected vehicles span a wide range of body styles including sedans, coupes, convertibles, and sports wagons across the 325i, 325xi, 328i, 328xi, 328i xDrive, 330i, 330xi, 335i, and related variants. The 2000-2002 window covers two separate situations: vehicles where the original airbag inflator was present from the factory, and vehicles where a replacement inflator was installed after a crash repair or as part of an earlier recall remedy that itself turned out to use a defective part. In both cases, the physical failure is the same regardless of how the inflator ended up in the vehicle.
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