BMW 325CI Recalls

The BMW 325Ci has 4 recalls, all affecting the airbag inflators, with the most serious being a driver and passenger frontal airbag defect on 2002-2006 models where the inflator can rupture during deployment and send metal fragments into the cabin, causing serious injury or death.

All four recalls trace back to Takata-manufactured airbag inflators. On 2002-2006 models, both the driver and passenger frontal airbag inflators are affected: the propellant inside can destabilize over time, causing the inflator to explode rather than deploy normally, with metal fragments flying toward the driver and other occupants. On 2000-2001 models, the driver airbag inflator carries the same risk, including on vehicles that may have already received a replacement airbag as part of an earlier repair. In those cases, the replacement inflator itself is subject to the same rupture concern, meaning a prior repair does not necessarily resolve the hazard.