BMW recall statistics vary depending on whether the measure is a campaign count, a potentially affected vehicle population, or a completed remedy. The figures below focus on United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) records and identify model years, reporting periods, and scope limitations for each measure.
Key BMW Recall Statistics
The most quotable BMW recall statistics in the supplied U.S. records are:
- 11 recall campaigns for the 2020 BMW X5 were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 8 recall campaigns for the 2022 BMW i4 were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 11 recall campaigns for the 2022 BMW iX were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 4 recall campaigns for the 2023 BMW X5 were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 8 recall campaigns for the 2024 BMW X5 were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 7 recall campaigns for the 2023 BMW i4 were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 3 recall campaigns for the 2024 BMW i4 were listed in the NHTSA vehicle API record accessed on October 2, 2026, for the United States.
- 394,029 potentially affected BMW vehicles from model years 2006–2012 were listed in NHTSA recall 24V-513 in the United States.
- 1,465 potentially involved 2023 BMW X1 vehicles were listed in recall 23V-260, with BMW estimating a 1% defect rate in the Part 573 filing.
- 70,887 potentially involved BMW X3 vehicles from model years 2020–2022 were listed in recall 25V-636 in the United States.
- 46,384 potentially involved BMW 3 Series vehicles from model years 2021–2024 were listed in recall 26V-056 in the United States.
- Five of 11 listed campaigns for the 2022 BMW iX concerned high-voltage battery, charging, propulsion, or electric-drive systems in the API record accessed October 2, 2026.
- Five of eight listed campaigns for the 2022 BMW i4 concerned high-voltage battery, charging, propulsion, or electric-drive systems in the API record accessed October 2, 2026.
- 5,696 of 11,579 vehicles in BMW recall 24V-739 were reported remedied in 2024 Q4 in the United States.
- 243,841 of 266,716 vehicles in BMW recall 24V-104 were reported remedied by 2026 Q1 in the United States.
- 281 of 309 vehicles in BMW recall 24V-697 were reported remedied in 2025 Q2 in the United States.
- 134 days was BMW’s average time from recall filing to mailed final-remedy notification across 32 included recalls in NHTSA’s 2020–2024 lengthy-remedy analysis.
- 720,796 vehicles were in BMW recall 24V-608, which had gone 195 days without an available remedy as of February 2025.
Contents
- Key BMW Recall Statistics
- BMW Recall Campaign Counts by Model and Model Year
- Largest BMW Recall Populations and Affected Vehicle Groups
- BMW Electric-Vehicle Recall Trends
- BMW Recall Remedy Completion and Participation
- BMW Recall Timing, Unavailable Remedies and Outcomes
BMW Recall Campaign Counts by Model and Model Year
NHTSA’s vehicle API counts campaigns returned for a specific make, model, and model-year query. These are campaign counts, not affected-unit totals or counts of vehicles still awaiting repair.
| Model and model year | Campaigns listed | Record period and geography |
|---|---|---|
| BMW X5, 2020 | 11 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
| BMW i4, 2022 | 8 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
| BMW iX, 2022 | 11 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
| BMW X5, 2023 | 4 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
| BMW X5, 2024 | 8 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
| BMW i4, 2023 | 7 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
| BMW i4, 2024 | 3 | API accessed October 2, 2026; United States |
Sources: NHTSA Recalls by Vehicle API: 2020 BMW X5, 2022 BMW i4, 2022 BMW iX, 2023 BMW X5, 2024 BMW X5, 2023 BMW i4, and 2024 BMW i4.
The model-year records show why a campaign count should be read as a catalog of safety actions rather than a direct estimate of owner exposure. A single campaign can cover different production configurations, and the same campaign can appear in more than one model record.
Largest BMW Recall Populations and Affected Vehicle Groups
Part 573 reports and NHTSA acknowledgment letters describe potentially involved or potentially affected populations. Those figures do not mean every listed vehicle had the defect, and populations can overlap across campaigns or model segments.
The largest supplied populations include:
- NHTSA recall 24V-513 listed 394,029 potentially affected BMW vehicles from model years 2006–2012, primarily 3 Series variants. (NHTSA acknowledgment letter)
- Recall 23V-260 listed 1,465 potentially involved 2023 BMW X1 vehicles, while BMW estimated that 1% had the defect in its Part 573 filing. (Part 573 Safety Recall Report 23V-260)
- Recall 23V-253 listed 235 potentially involved 2023 BMW X5 vehicles; BMW estimated that approximately 188 might not conform to FMVSS 202a. (Part 573 Safety Recall Report 23V-253)
- Recall 24V-104 listed 79,670 potentially affected vehicles across specified BMW models and the 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre for model years 2023–2024. Because Rolls-Royce is included, this is not a BMW-brand-only total. (NHTSA acknowledgment letter)
Recall 25V-636 also shows how one campaign can contain several distinct model segments:
| Vehicle segment | Model years | Potentially involved |
|---|---|---|
| BMW 4 Series convertibles | 2021–2022 | 9,621 |
| BMW 2 Series 230i Coupe | 2022 | 1 |
| BMW X3 | 2020–2022 | 70,887 |
| BMW Z4 | 2019–2022 | 4,539 |
| BMW 5 Series | 2020–2022 | 22,804 |
The report separately states that approximately 3,152 vehicles had the specified starter configuration, so that description should not be substituted for the 9,621 campaign-segment population. (Part 573 Safety Recall Report 25V-636)
Recall 26V-056 listed 1,465 Z4s, 5,887 4 Series Gran Coupes, 6,944 4 Series convertibles, 5,596 4 Series coupes, 46,384 3 Series vehicles, 1,283 X4s, and 12,030 X3s from model years 2021–2024, depending on the production configuration. The report notes that the calculated defect proportion for the 4 Series Gran Coupe segment was below the portal’s 0.1% display floor; these remain segment populations, not model-wide counts. (Part 573 Safety Recall Report 26V-056)
Two follow-up populations in recall 24V-739 identify vehicles that had already received a replacement integrated brake module under an earlier recall: approximately 21 BMW i5 vehicles and approximately 1,205 BMW 740i and 760i xDrive vehicles. These are previously repaired subsets, not total recall populations. (Part 573 Safety Recall Report 24V-739)
BMW Electric-Vehicle Recall Trends
The supplied API records provide campaign counts for the BMW i4 and iX, while the campaign descriptions support a narrower propulsion-system classification. The derived electric-vehicle figures count named campaign IDs in the opened API responses, so campaign overlap across models is possible.
- The 2022 BMW iX record contained 11 campaigns, with five involving high-voltage battery, charging, propulsion, or electric-drive systems: 22V541, 22V944, 23V295, 23V449, and 25V470. (NHTSA Recalls by Vehicle API: 2022 BMW iX)
- The 2022 BMW i4 record contained eight campaigns, with five involving those electric or propulsion-related systems: 22V541, 22V944, 23V449, 25V395, and 25V470. (NHTSA Recalls by Vehicle API: 2022 BMW i4)
- The 2023 BMW i4 record contained seven campaigns, with five involving high-voltage battery, charging, propulsion, or electric-drive systems: 22V944, 23V295, 23V449, 25V395, and 25V470. (NHTSA Recalls by Vehicle API: 2023 BMW i4)
The 2024 BMW i4 API record contained three campaigns. The returned record included a high-voltage battery module fire-risk campaign, a structural-beam campaign, and one additional campaign result; the opened response was truncated after the second result’s detail, so it does not support an affected-vehicle total. (NHTSA Recalls by Vehicle API: 2024 BMW i4)
These data describe the type and number of campaigns returned for selected model years, not the probability that an individual electric vehicle will experience a failure. They also do not establish that propulsion-related campaigns were more numerous across the entire BMW fleet.
BMW Recall Remedy Completion and Participation
NHTSA quarterly reports track cumulative campaign status. In these reports, “remedied” includes vehicles remedied, inspected without needing a remedy, or returned to inventory; it is therefore broader than completed repair alone.
BMW recall 24V-104 illustrates a long-running completion series:
| Report period | Remedied | Recall population |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q2 | 10,715 | 266,716 |
| 2024 Q4 | 66,932 | 266,716 |
| 2025 Q1 | 107,113 | 266,716 |
| 2025 Q2 | 139,557 | 266,716 |
| 2025 Q3 | 169,732 | 266,716 |
| 2025 Q4 | 210,811 | 266,716 |
| 2026 Q1 | 243,841 | 266,716 |
The 2026 Q1 report was last updated April 29, 2026. The same campaign reported 59 removed vehicles in 2024 Q2, 179 in 2024 Q4, and 195 in 2025 Q3; “removed” means scrapped, stolen, or exported. (Recall Quarterly Report 24V104)
For recall 24V-739, the first quarterly report for 2024 Q4 listed a population of 11,579 vehicles and 5,696 total remedied. It also listed zero unreachable vehicles and zero removed vehicles for that report period. (Recall Quarterly Report 24V-739)
Recall 24V-697 moved from 192 remedied vehicles out of 309 in 2024 Q4, to 258 out of 309 in 2025 Q1, and 281 out of 309 in 2025 Q2. These are cumulative statuses for the campaign’s first three quarterly reports, not quarterly repair flows. (Recall Quarterly Report 24V697)
BMW Recall Timing, Unavailable Remedies and Outcomes
NHTSA’s 2024 Annual Recall Report provides a manufacturer-level timing benchmark and a snapshot of recalls without an available remedy. The timing analysis covers included recalls with more than 60 days to final-remedy notification and is not a per-vehicle repair-duration measure.
BMW averaged 134 days between recall filing and mailed final-remedy notification across 32 recalls in NHTSA’s analysis of 2020–2024 recalls. The figure describes the manufacturer’s included recalls under NHTSA’s methodology, not every BMW campaign or every owner’s wait time. (2024 Annual Recall Report)
As of February 2025, NHTSA’s no-remedy table listed two BMW campaigns among recent vehicle recalls more than 60 days old without an available remedy:
| BMW campaign | Days since Part 573 filing | Potential population | Snapshot date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24V-608 | 195 | 720,796 vehicles | February 2025 |
| 24V-716 | 150 | 5,048 vehicles | February 2025 |
The 720,796 and 5,048 figures are potential populations, not completed repairs. The two-campaign count is a derived count of BMW rows in that no-remedy table, not a count of all BMW recalls during the period. (2024 Annual Recall Report)
Taken together, these measures separate three different outcomes: how many campaigns were recorded for a model-year query, how many vehicles were potentially included in a campaign, and how many vehicles had reached NHTSA’s inclusive “remedied” status. Those definitions should remain separate when comparing BMW recall statistics across models, campaign reports, and reporting dates.