26V438000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
Fire increases the risk of injury.
2023 BMW 230I
4 safety recall campaigns, 4 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns4
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints4
Complaints citing a crash0
Complaints citing a fire0
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 4 of 4
26V056000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
Fire increases the risk of injury.
23V099000
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE
Unintentionally closing the windows or sunroof without the key present can increase the risk of injury to occupants inside the vehicle.
23V039000
AIR BAGS:SIDE/WINDOW
A backrest cover panel that breaks during side air bag deployment may cause the air bag to deploy improperly, increasing the risk of injury to second-row seat occupants.
What owners report most
- 1BACK OVER PREVENTION: REARVIEW SYSTEM BRAKING
- 1ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 1ENGINE
- 1UNKNOWN OR OTHER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2023 BMW 230Is 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.