19V015000
AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE
An inflator explosion may result in sharp metal fragments striking the driver or other occupants resulting in serious injury or death.
2000 BMW 540I
1 safety recall campaign, 1 carrying NHTSA's "park it" advisory, 36 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
Do not drive
1 campaign covering the 2000 BMW 540I carries NHTSA’s “park it” advisory — the federal government telling owners to stop driving the vehicle until the remedy has been performed. Whether it was performed on any particular car is not something NHTSA publishes in a form anyone can query; a franchised dealer can run the VIN and print the record in a minute, and the repair is free.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it1stop driving until repaired
Investigations0
Owner complaints36
Complaints citing a crash1
Complaints citing a fire3
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 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 5AIR BAGS
- 5ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM:RADIATOR ASSEMBLY
- 4ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 3EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 3AIR BAGS:FRONTAL
- 2ENGINE
- 2ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:COOLING SYSTEM
- 2UNKNOWN OR OTHER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2000 BMW 540Is 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.