ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:STARTER ASSEMBLY
Fire increases the risk of injury.
6 safety recall campaigns, 15 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
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.
Fire increases the risk of injury.
A short circuit in the starter relay may increase the risk of a fire.
An audible chime that does not properly alert the driver to fasten their seat belt increases the risk of injury in a crash.
During a crash, a seat belt retractor that does not function as intended increases the risk of injury.
An air bag that deploys incorrectly can increase the risk of injury in a crash.
If the driver relies on only the rearview camera image, the missing or reduced rearview image view can increase the risk of a crash or injury.
Two 2021 BMW 430Is 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.