4 recalls across 7 model years
The BMW 325CI has 4 recalls covering the full 2000–2006 production run, all involving Takata frontal airbag inflators on both the driver and passenger sides that can rupture during deployment and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.
All four recalls trace to the same underlying danger: Takata-manufactured airbag inflators that can explode rather than deploy normally. On the passenger side, 2000–2006 models carry inflators using phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate propellant that can detonate and fragment the inflator housing. On the driver side, two separate inflator types are involved across different year ranges. The 2000–2001 model years are covered by recalls addressing Non-Azide Driver Inflators installed either at the factory or as replacement parts fitted during prior repairs. The 2002–2006 model years have a separate recall covering a different generation of driver-side inflators with the same rupture risk. In every case, the consequence in a crash is the same: the inflator can burst rather than cushion, turning metal housing components into projectiles directed at the driver or front passenger.
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